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

社会资产测量公司（o/a SAMETRICA）创建的软件，使客户能够为他们的组织创建定制的社会影响测量框架。SAMETRICA面临的问题是，他们的客户收集的数据，沿着来自其他来源的数据，人口普查、开放城市数据等，在语义上是不能互操作的。这意味着，如果不努力将数据转换为通用的、语义上精确的和明确的表示，就不能将数据进行组合和比较。这个项目开发了一个本体，它将为社会影响数据提供一个清晰，精确和正式的语义。本体将弥合各个客户使用的术语和指标之间的差异，为建立可比较的自定义评估框架、基准性能和跟踪进度提供共同基础。本体将使用描述逻辑进行正式定义，并使用语义网OWL语法进行交付。

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.