status: Completed
Chair (s): Chris Pettit, Max Craglia, Piyushimita (Vonu) Thakuriah, Mark Fox
Group Email: [group_email]
Secretariat Liaison: [field_secretariat_liaison]
In 2007 the world’s population became more urban than rural according to the United Nations. Urban Quality of Life (QoL) is the general well-being of individual and societies living in cities. As there is a growing number of the world's population moving into cities there is increasing importance for the need for urban QoL indicators that can benchmark and enable comparative analysis in and between cities so that the social, environmental, economic and cultural dimensions can utlimately be improved.
This RDA interest group is being set up to contribute to this challenge by identifying a minimum set of interoperable open access datasets across the social, environmental, economic and cultural domains that can be used to build comparable indicators of Urban Quality of Life (QoL) in a global setting.
File Repository
An Environment Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO37120)
by Mark Fox
An Environment Ontology for representing Environmental information and ISO37120 theme indicator definitions.Attachment | Size |
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A Finance Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)
by Mark Fox
An Ontology of Finance knowledge for the representation of ISO 37120 Finance theme indicators.
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A Telecommunications and Innovation Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)
by Mark Fox
This paper defines an ontology for representing the definitions of the ISO 37120 Telecommunications and Innovation theme indicators.
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The Role of Ontologies in Publishing and Analyzing City Indicators
by Mark Fox
This paper addresses the problem of how city indicators and their supporting data are to be published on the Semantic Web so that automated analysis can be performed.
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A Shelter Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)
by Mark Fox
This paper defines a shelter ontology that includes concepts of shelters, slums, households and homelessness.
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An Education Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)
by Mark Fox
This paper addresses the problem of how to represent education information to support the analysis of a city's education system performance.
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On the Completeness of Open City Data for Measuring City Indicators
by Mark Fox
In an era of urbanization there is an increasing need to benchmark the performance of cities and do this against a robust set of measures that can be repeated and replicated over time.
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New Indicators of Quality of Life: A Review of the Literature, Projects, and Applications
by Max Craglia
An increasing number of governmental and economic institutions, including Eurostat, the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), and the World Bank acknowledge that the drivers that have dominated the worldwide economic policy for the past five decades – maximizing the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and the market efficiency – are no longer sufficient goals for ensuring societal prosperity. They recognize that economic growth alone cannot ensure sustainability, social equity, and improved well-being. As a result, both governments and institutions are considering a diverse set of economic policy objectives, based on ‘Beyond-GDP’ indicators, in an attempt to promote greater equality, improved quality of life and sustainable long-term progress. Against the background of these considerations, the JRC Digital Earth and Reference Data Unit launched a project in 2014 on Citizen Science Observatory of New Indicators of Urban Sustainability. The aim of the project is to leverage the expertise of the Unit in the interoperability of data, services, and systems and combine data coming from a diverse range of sources, official government sources, sensors networks, and citizens, to construct new indicators of Quality of Life (QoL). This report reviews the literature on QoL indicators, analyses key projects and initiatives at the international level measuring QoL and well-being, and recommends promising areas in which new indicators could be developed.
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Foundation Ontology for Global City Indicators
by Chris Pettit
Mark Fox, Senior Fellow at the Global Cities Institute, has kindly made available the latest verion of the Global City Indicators ontology.
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