Ontology and e-Government in the context of Knowledge Engineering

Government initiatives to provide services from ICT are discussed at all levels of public administration. In a few of these cases, the semantics are considered in the projects of availability of data and services to society, which involves: heterogeneous systems, duplication of information, dissolution of government agencies or wrong use of knowledge. As a way to generate scientific, technological, economic, social or cultural value, the knowledge engineering evidence frameworks that consider the semantics of information and the interoperability of processes, defining a standard vocabulary as the ontologies. The purpose of this document is to highlight an overview of research on e-government and the use of ontologies from the perspective of knowledge engineering. Thus presents current initiatives researching the knowledge openness of government in generating value in an interdisciplinary paradigm. As a result, the governance characteristics evidenced in different areas, which requires an interdisciplinary study for solving practical problems. Among the challenges is pointed the reengineering processes under the criteria of accessibility, interoperability, as well as reliability, availability, maintainability and safety, conceptualized as "RAMS".