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

社会资产度量公司（o/a SAMETRICA）创建软件，使客户能够为其组织创建定制的社会影响度量框架。SAMETRICA面临的问题是，他们的客户端收集的数据，以及来自其他来源的数据，如人口普查、开放城市数据等，在语义上是不可互操作的。这意味着，如果不投入大量精力将数据转换成通用的、语义上精确的、明确的表示，就无法对数据进行组合和比较。本项目将开发一个本体，为社会影响数据提供一个清晰、精确和形式化的语义。本体论将弥合个别客户使用的术语和指标之间的差异，为构建可比较的定制评估框架、基准性能和跟踪进度提供一个共同的基础。本体将使用描述逻辑正式定义，并使用语义Web OWL语法交付。

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.