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Ontological Models of Legal Contents and Users’ Activities for EU e-Participation Services

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Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective (EGOVIS 2017)

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Abstract

This paper presents a modular knowledge organization system within a pilot project for e-Participation in the EU law-making process. The ontological approach here presented is the ground of a web platform allowing citizens and other stakeholders to actively participate in public consultations. Citizens can provide comments and amendments, as well expressing sentiments on pre-legislative documents. The modeling approach follows a pure RDF(S)/OWL implementation for all the produced contributions (documents, comments, amendments, statistics), with the aim to made them available as Linked Open Data.

E. Francesconi is author of Sects. 3, 4, 5, 6; P. Schmitz, B. Batouche, S.P. Landercy, V. Touly are authors of Sects. 1, 2, 7.

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  1. 1.

    https://ec.europa.eu/info/resources-partners/machine-translation-public-administrations-mtec_en.

  2. 2.

    http://www.fedora-commons.org.

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    Common Data Model.

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    https://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/.

  5. 5.

    Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records.

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    xmlns:lodep = “http://publications.europa.eu/eparticipation”.

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    International Standard Bibliographic Description.

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    where cellar-record: represents the namespace. http://publications.europa.eu/resource/cellar-record/.

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    European Legislation Identifier.

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    xmlns:eli = “http://publications.europa.eu/eli/”.

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    http://formex.publications.europa.eu.

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    http://clarkparsia.com.

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    http://hermit-reasoner.com.

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    http://ckeditor.com.

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    http://rdfs.org/sioc/spec/.

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    http://www.foaf-project.org.

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    https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/software/e_participation/home.

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    P. Schmitz, E. Francesconi, B. Batouche, S. P. Landercy & V. Touly

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Schmitz, P., Francesconi, E., Batouche, B., Landercy, S.P., Touly, V. (2017). Ontological Models of Legal Contents and Users’ Activities for EU e-Participation Services. In: Kő, A., Francesconi, E. (eds) Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective. EGOVIS 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10441. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64248-2_8

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