An Energy Ontology for Global City Indicators (ISO 37120)
This work addresses the problem of standardizing energy performance indicators for cities, but it is incremental as it builds on existing ISO standards and semantic web approaches.
The paper tackles the challenge of measuring city performance by defining a standard ontology for representing knowledge, definitions, and data for Energy Theme indicators within the ISO 37120 framework, as part of the PolisGnosis Project.
To create tomorrow's smarter cities, today's initiatives will need to create measurable improvements. However, a city is a complex system and measuring its performance generates a breadth of issues. Specifically, determining what criteria should be measured, how indications should be defined, and how should the identified indicators be derived. This working paper is one in series that addresses the creation of a Semantic Web based representation of the 17 different themes of ISO 37120 indicators as part of the larger PolisGnosis Project (Fox, 2017). We define a standard ontology for representing general knowledge for the Energy Theme indicators, and for representing both the definition and data used to derive the Energy indicators.