%0 Conference Proceedings %T Exploiting eParticipation Using an Ontological Approach %+ Instituto de Computação [Niteroi-Rio de Janeiro] (IC-UFF) %+ Instituto de Computação %A Slaviero, Cleyton %A Garcia, Ana %A Maciel, Cristiano %Z Part 5: Techniques and Analysis %< avec comité de lecture %( Lecture Notes in Computer Science %B 4th International Conference on Electronic Participation (ePart) %C Kristiansand, Norway %Y Efthimios Tambouris %Y Ann Macintosh %Y Øystein Sæbø %I Springer %3 Electronic Participation %V LNCS-7444 %P 144-155 %8 2012-09-03 %D 2012 %R 10.1007/978-3-642-33250-0_13 %K ontology design %K specification phase %K eParticipation environments %Z Computer Science [cs] %Z Humanities and Social Sciences/Library and information sciencesConference papers %X When building an eParticipation environment, many questions arise. Who will the participants be? What are the outcomes? How will citizens interact? How will they be selected? All these questions will influence the specification of an eParticipation environment. In order to create an effective eParticipation environment, the designer pays attention to all these characteristics, which can be tricky, especially when selecting ICTs to support the eParticipation process. This paper suggests the use of an ontological approach when specifying these eParticipation environments, in order to reduce the designer’s cognitive efforts when designing effective eParticipation environments. %G English %Z TC 8 %Z WG 8.5 %2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01541483/document %2 https://inria.hal.science/hal-01541483/file/978-3-642-33250-0_13_Chapter.pdf %L hal-01541483 %U https://inria.hal.science/hal-01541483 %~ SHS %~ IFIP-LNCS %~ IFIP %~ IFIP-TC %~ IFIP-TC8 %~ IFIP-EPART %~ IFIP-WG8-5 %~ IFIP-LNCS-7444