Towards Integrating Nonprofit Performance Data: An Ontology for Social Impact Measurement

整合非营利绩效数据：社会影响衡量的本体论

• 批准号: 515214-2017
• 负责人: Fox, Mark
• 金额: $ 1.82万
• 依托单位: University of Toronto
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Engage Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=640135
• 关键词: Towards; Integrating; Nonprofit; Performance; Data

Social Assets Measurements Inc (o/a SAMETRICA) creates software that enables clients to create customsocial impact measurement frameworks for their organizations. The problem SAMETRICA faces is that thedata their clients collect, along with data from other sources, e.g., census, open city data, etc., are notsemantically interoperable. This means that the data cannot be combined and compared without significanteffort put into translating into a common, semantically precise and unambiguous representation. This projectwill develop an ontology which will provide a clear, precise and formal semantics for social impact data. Theontology will bridge the differences between the terminology and indicators used by the individual clients,providing a common basis for building comparable custom evaluation frameworks, benchmarking performanceand tracking progress.The ontology will be formally defined using Description Logic, and delivered using theSemantic Web OWL syntax.

社会资产测量公司(o/a SAMETRICA)开发的软件使客户能够为其组织创建定制的社会影响衡量框架。SAMETRICA面临的问题是，他们的客户收集的数据，以及来自其他来源的数据，如人口普查、公开城市数据等，在语义上不能互操作。这意味着，如果不把数据翻译成通用的、语义准确的和明确的表示法，就不能组合和比较数据。这个项目将开发一个本体，它将为社会影响数据提供清晰、准确和形式化的语义。本体将弥合个别客户使用的术语和指标之间的差异，为构建可比的定制评估框架、基准性能和跟踪进度提供公共基础。本体将使用描述逻辑进行正式定义，并使用语义Web OWL语法进行交付。