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Ontology-based Data Integration for Corporate Sustainability Information Systems

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Lisa Madlberger,

Andreas Thöni,

Alexander Schatten,

A. Min TjoaAuthors Info & Claims

IIWAS '13: Proceedings of International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services

Pages 353 - 357

https://doi.org/10.1145/2539150.2539208

Published: 02 December 2013 Publication History

Abstract

Nowadays, the term sustainability gains more and more importance in corporate risk management and decision making. Corporate Sustainability Information Systems should support companies to analyse sustainability risks and provide relevant data in a practical manner. A major challenge in the domain of sustainability is to integrate environmental, social and economic data from different sources. This paper presents an approach for ontology-based data integration in the Corporate Sustainability domain preserving hierarchical relations to allow e.g. improved querying. Based on an existing sustainability framework defined in an XBRL-taxonomy, first a mechanism for the automatic generation of a domain-specific ontology is proposed. Finally, special data is queried and linked to the proposed ontology, serving as a working example for the suggested approach.

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1. Applied computing
  1. Enterprise computing
2. Information systems
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