A Knowledge Modelling Approach for Promoting Citizens' Participation in the EU Law Making Process

This paper describes the pilot project on Linked Open Data (LOD) and e-Participation, promoted by the European Parliament and developed by the Publications Office of the European Union (OP). By exploiting the LOD service for pre-legislative documents available at OP, the project aims at allowing citizens to actively participate in public consultations within the EU decision-making process, by providing comments and amendments on pre-legislative documents, as well ex- pressing their sentiments on them. The data produced will be available as LOD; for this reason a specific semantic approach able to describe documents and users activities is implemented.