| Περίληψη: | Parliaments possess huge amounts of valuable knowledge on public policies which concerns social needs,
problems, and interventions for addressing them. This knowledge is highly useful to other parliaments and
also to government agencies of various layers. However, this valuable knowledge is hidden in numerous
text documents so that it cannot be efficiently exchanged and exploited. In this regard, it is highly important
to extend the concept of interoperability among information systems (IS) of Parliaments and Government
Agencies so that it covers not only the ‘operational level’, but also the ‘knowledge level’. This paper presents
a methodology for achieving higher level interoperability among IS of parliaments and government agencies
with respect to the exchange of public policy related knowledge. It is based on the use of the complex problems
representation ontology provided by the ‘Issue-Based Information Systems’ (IBIS) framework for codifying
public policy related knowledge. An application of the proposed methodology is presented for the case of the
law on the ‘Contracts of Voluntary Cohabitation’, which has been recently passed by the Greek Parliament.
The evaluation of this application gave encouraging conclusions as to the usefulness of this methodology and
resulted in the development of a refinement of the IBIS ontology. |
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