000053115 001__ 53115 000053115 005__ 20161006102708.0 000053115 0247_ $$2doi$$a10.3233/SW-150195 000053115 0248_ $$2sideral$$a94703 000053115 037__ $$aART-2016-94703 000053115 041__ $$aeng 000053115 100__ $$0(orcid)0000-0001-5181-1119$$aMuñoz Soro, José Félix$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000053115 245__ $$aPPROC, an ontology for transparency in''public procurement 000053115 260__ $$c2016 000053115 5060_ $$aAccess copy available to the general public$$fUnrestricted 000053115 5203_ $$aPublic procurement or tendering refers to the process followed by public authorities for the procurement of goods and services. In most developed countries, the law requires public authorities to provide online information to ensure competitive tendering as far as possible, for which the adequate announcement of tenders is an essential requirement. In addition, transparency laws being proposed in such countries are making the monitoring of public contracts by citizens a fundamental right. This paper describes the PPROC ontology, which has been developed to give support to both processes, publication and accountability, by semantically describing public procurement processes and contracts. The PPROC ontology is extensive, since it covers not only the usual data about the tender, its objectives, deadlines and awardees, but also details of the whole process, from the initial contract publication to its termination. This makes it possible to use the ontology for both open data publication purposes and for the overall management of the public contract procurement process. 000053115 536__ $$9info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICYT/TSI-020606-2012-4 000053115 540__ $$9info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess$$aby-nc$$uhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/ 000053115 655_4 $$ainfo:eu-repo/semantics/article$$vinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 000053115 700__ $$aEsteban,G. 000053115 700__ $$aCorcho,O. 000053115 700__ $$0(orcid)0000-0003-1683-4694$$aSerón Arbeloa, Francisco José$$uUniversidad de Zaragoza 000053115 7102_ $$15007$$2570$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDepartamento de Informática e Ingeniería de Sistemas$$cLenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos 000053115 7102_ $$14010$$2381$$aUniversidad de Zaragoza$$bDepartamento de Derecho Penal, Filosofía del Derecho e Historia del Derecho$$cFilosofía del Derecho 000053115 773__ $$g7, 3 (2016), 295-309$$tSemantic Web$$x1570-0844 000053115 8564_ $$s731324$$uhttp://zaguan.unizar.es/record/53115/files/texto_completo.pdf$$yVersión publicada 000053115 8564_ $$s59530$$uhttp://zaguan.unizar.es/record/53115/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon$$xicon$$yVersión publicada 000053115 909CO $$ooai:zaguan.unizar.es:53115$$particulos$$pdriver 000053115 951__ $$a2016-06-01-08:49:20 000053115 980__ $$aARTICLE