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Using Ontology Design Patterns to Represent Sustainability Indicator Sets

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OWL: Experiences and Directions – Reasoner Evaluation (OWLED 2016, ORE 2016)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNISA,volume 10161))

Abstract

Sustainability indicators are increasingly being used to measure the economic, environmental and social properties of complex systems across different temporal and spatial scales. This motivates their inclusion in open distributed knowledge systems such as the Semantic Web. The diversity of such indicator sets provides considerable choice but also poses problems for those who need to measure and report. To address the modelling problems of indicator sets, we propose the use of Value Partition pattern to construct two design candidates: generic and specific. The generic design is more abstract, with fewer classes and properties, than the specific design. Documents describing two indicator systems – the Global Reporting Initiative and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development – are used in the design of both candidate ontologies. We show the use of existing structural ontology design patterns can help to solve problems of ontology representations for modelling sustainability indicator sets.

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Notes

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    http://protege.stanford.edu/.

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    http://www.globalreporting.org/.

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    http://www.oecd.org/.

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    http://www.un.org/esa.

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    http://ontologydesignpatterns.org.

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    http://ontologydesignpatterns.org/wiki/Submissions:Role_task.

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    http://ontologydesignpatterns.org.

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    http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/OEP/SpecifiedValues-20050223/.

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    http://www.circlesofsustainability.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/.

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    http://ontologymatching.org/projects.html.

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    https://www.w3.org/2004/02/skos/.

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Acknowledgements

We thank the anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments. This research has been supported in part by an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded linkage project LP0990509 on Accounting for Sustainability: Developing an Integrated Approach for Sustainability Assessments.

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    Lida Ghahremanlou

  2. University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Liam Magee

  3. RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia

    James A. Thom

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Ghahremanlou, L., Magee, L., Thom, J.A. (2017). Using Ontology Design Patterns to Represent Sustainability Indicator Sets. In: Dragoni, M., Poveda-Villalón, M., Jimenez-Ruiz, E. (eds) OWL: Experiences and Directions – Reasoner Evaluation. OWLED ORE 2016 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10161. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54627-8_6

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