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

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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.