Keywords
sustainability analysis, indicators of sustainable development, domain ontology, metadata
Start Date
1-7-2006 12:00 AM
Abstract
Indicators of Sustainable Development (ISDs) make up a sophisticated set of information that can be employedas a means to study many aspects of a system’s sustainability. Methods for producing ISDs, as well as environmentalmodels in general, typically are strongly backed by data, so as to heighten their trustworthiness.This work proposes a sustainability analysis framework where higher level forms of data description, namely,a domain ontology and metadata, are employed to harness the data and to provide relevant elicited informationto a software tool which is ultimately responsible for yielding levels of sustainability of systems under analysis.Having the framework equipped with a metadata standard and a formal ontology of the domain whichare specified in standard and W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) recommended representational formalisms(XML and OWL) fosters information exchange and systems interoperability on the WWW platform.
Information Integration through Ontology and Metadata for Sustainability Analysis
Indicators of Sustainable Development (ISDs) make up a sophisticated set of information that can be employedas a means to study many aspects of a system’s sustainability. Methods for producing ISDs, as well as environmentalmodels in general, typically are strongly backed by data, so as to heighten their trustworthiness.This work proposes a sustainability analysis framework where higher level forms of data description, namely,a domain ontology and metadata, are employed to harness the data and to provide relevant elicited informationto a software tool which is ultimately responsible for yielding levels of sustainability of systems under analysis.Having the framework equipped with a metadata standard and a formal ontology of the domain whichare specified in standard and W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) recommended representational formalisms(XML and OWL) fosters information exchange and systems interoperability on the WWW platform.
