Ontology-based Data Integration for Corporate Sustainability Information Systems

Madlberger, Lisa; Thöni, Andreas; Wetz, Peter; Strobel, Alexander; Tjoa, A. Min

doi:10.1145/2539150.2539208

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“…For example, Kibe () discusses how the Jua Kali artisans in Kenya share the knowledge they possess, and how this may be useful for sustainable development of Jua Kali workers. Madlberger, Thoni, Wetz, Schatten, and Tjoa () describe an ontology‐based data integration system for corporate sustainability activities, while Ghahremanloo, Thom, and Magee () propose a new ontology for sustainability indicators in heterogeneous fields of activities. Haupt, Scholtz, and Calitz () propose a business intelligence approach to support sustainability information management.…”

Section: Sustainability and Information Research And Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Information practices for sustainability: Role of iSchools in achieving the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs)

Chowdhury

Koya

2017

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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In September 2015, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly passed a resolution identifying 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and 169 associated targets, and countries around the world agreed to achieve these by 2030. By conducting a thematic analysis of four key UN policy documents related to sustainable development, this paper argues that alongside financial and other resources, access to, and use of, appropriate information are essential for achieving SDGs. The paper also reviews research on information and sustainability undertaken at the iSchools and the computer and human–computer interaction HCI communities. Given that the mission of iSchools is to connect people and society with the required information through the use of appropriate technologies and tools, this paper argues that iSchools can play a key role in helping people, institutions, and businesses, and thus countries around the world achieve SDGs. The paper identifies 4 broad areas of teaching and research that can help iSchools around the world prepare a trained workforce who can manage, and facilitate access to, information in specific domains and contexts. It is also argued that cooperation and collaborations among iSchools can promote a culture of sustainable information practices among university graduates and researchers in different disciplines that will pave the way for achieving SDGs in every sector.

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Section: Sustainability and Information Research And Practicementioning

confidence: 99%

Information practices for sustainability: Role of iSchools in achieving the UN sustainable development goals (SDGs)

Chowdhury

Koya

2017

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“…This represents a solution to convert US-GAAP reports into Linked data, but it is not a solution for any other type of XBRL reports, such as CNMV reports. Closer to the sustainability domain, Madlberger et al [6] presented an ontologybased approach using GRI-XBRL taxonomy to build a Corporate Sustainability ontology. However, the result is content-based approach instead of metadata conversion, meaning that the solution proposed is not generic to transform any XBRL report to RDF, only GRI reports to RDF.…”

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Adopting Semantic Technologies for Effective Corporate Transparency

2017

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A new transparency model with more and better corporate data is necessary to promote sustainable economic growth. In particular, there is a need to link factors regarding non-financial performance of corporations-such as social and environmental impacts, both positive and negative-into decision-making processes of investors and other stakeholders. To do this, we need to develop better ways to access and analyse corporate social, environmental and financial performance information, and to link together insights from these different sources. Such sources are already on the web in non-structured and structured data formats, a big part of them in XBRL (Extensible Business Reporting Language). This study is about promoting solutions to drive effective transparency for a sustainable economy, given the current adoption of XBRL, and the new opportunities that Linked Data can offer. We present (1) a methodology to formalise XBRL as RDF using Linked data principles and (2) demonstrate its usefulness through a use case connecting and making the data accessible.

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