Using ontology design patterns to represent sustainability indicator sets

Lida Ghahremanlou; Liam Magee; James A. Thom

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-54627-8_6

Using ontology design patterns to represent sustainability indicator sets

Lida Ghahremanlou
, Liam Magee
, James A. Thom

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	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
Publisher	Springer
Pages	70-81
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	9783319546261
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54627-8_6
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	International Experiences and Directions Workshop on OWL - Duration: 20 Nov 2016 → …

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ISSN (Print)	0302-9743

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Conference	International Experiences and Directions Workshop on OWL
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UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
SDG 12 Responsible Consumption and Production

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environmental impact analysis
knowledge representation (information theory)
ontologies (information retrieval)

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Ghahremanlou, L., Magee, L., & Thom, J. A. (2016). Using ontology design patterns to represent sustainability indicator sets. In 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 (pp. 70-81). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54627-8_6

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Ghahremanlou, L, Magee, L & Thom, JA 2016, Using ontology design patterns to represent sustainability indicator sets. in 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. Springer, pp. 70-81, International Experiences and Directions Workshop on OWL, 20/11/16. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54627-8_6

Using ontology design patterns to represent sustainability indicator sets. / Ghahremanlou, Lida; Magee, Liam; Thom, James A.
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. Springer, 2016. p. 70-81.

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference Paper › Conference Paper › peer-review

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