A project management ontology as a reference for e-Government projects

The elaboration of ontology contributes for the standardization and classification of concepts and terminologies and it has been happening in some sectors, as, for example, in the software engineering, the e-Government services implementation and the project management. In the area of e-Government, the development of e-Government Transformation Project Management ontology aims at adopting and customizing the existing project management approaches according to the specific challenges encountered in e-Government environment. In this context this research presents an ontological representation of the concepts of e-Government project management. It intends to collaborate in the excellence and productivity of the management of e-Government project process and enable the interoperability and knowledge reuse between all factors and stakeholders related with the implementation of such types of projects.