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The compliance of e-government services with legal aspects is a crucial issue for administrations. This issue becomes more difficult with the fast-evolving dynamics of laws. This chapter presents our approach to describe and establish the link between e-government services and legal sources. This link is established by an ontology called “law-based ontology.” We use this ontology as means to define and to construct e-government services. The proposed approach is illustrated with one case study: the specification of services in relationship with the venture creation in Switzerland and in the State of Geneva. We have selected the Commercial Register area which mainly encompasses the registration of a new company and the modification of its registration.
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Fiches juridiques suisses. http://www.fjs.ch.
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Ordonnance du 7 juin 1937 sur le registre du commerce (ORC), RS 221.411. http://www.admin.ch/ch/f/rs/c221_411.html.
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Khadraoui, A., Opprecht, W., Léonard, M., Aïdonidis, C. (2011). Law-Based Ontology for E-Government Services Construction – Case Study: The Specification of Services in Relationship with the Venture Creation in Switzerland. In: Assar, S., Boughzala, I., Boydens, I. (eds) Practical Studies in E-Government. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7533-1_9
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