TY - GEN
T1 - Using ontology design patterns to represent sustainability indicator sets
AU - Ghahremanlou, Lida
AU - Magee, Liam
AU - Thom, James A.
PY - 2016
Y1 - 2016
N2 - ![CDATA[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.]]
AB - ![CDATA[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.]]
KW - environmental impact analysis
KW - knowledge representation (information theory)
KW - ontologies (information retrieval)
UR - http://handle.westernsydney.edu.au:8081/1959.7/uws:39190
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-54627-8_6
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-54627-8_6
M3 - Conference Paper
SN - 9783319546261
SP - 70
EP - 81
BT - OWL: Experiences and Directions - Reasoner Evaluation: 13th International Workshop, OWLED 2016 and 5th International Workshop, ORE 2016, Bologna, Italy, November 20, 2016: Revised Selected Papers
PB - Springer
T2 - International Experiences and Directions Workshop on OWL
Y2 - 20 November 2016
ER -
