A DOMAIN ONTOLOGY FOR THE ACCOUNTABILITY OF FEDERAL PUBLIC MANAGERS: ONTOACCOUNT

ABSTRACT The diffusion of innovation in public management and the use of technologies in favor of access to information, transparency, and social participation are hallmarks of government efforts to develop and expand the Open Government paradigm in Brazil. The present article intends to disclose the results of a doctoral research that investigated the paradox between the vast amount of governmental data available in the taking and rendering of accounts of federal public administrators and the low perception and appropriation of the knowledge generated by the citizen. Its main purpose was to carry out a modeling of the domain of knowledge of the taking and annual accountability of federal public managers in order to facilitate and accelerate the development of civic software agents. From the methodological point of view, an exploratory qualitative research was developed with technical procedures of bibliographic and documental research. The Protégé 5.5.0 framework and the OntoForInfoScience methodology, proposed by Mendonça (2015), were used to develop the ontology prototype. As a result, a domain ontology called OntoAccount was created to represent the concepts and relationships of the domain, in addition to making it possible to answer questions about the instances of the domain of taking and rendering annual accounts of federal public managers.