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During last 30 years, due to the interest in sustainable development and ecology, different systems of sustainability indicators have been developed. These systems are increasingly complex, varying their scope both for territorial and thematic areas. A key point developing sustainable policies is the accessibility of good indicators. Developing a knowledge model about them can facilitate their management and interpretation. Due to the complexity of diverse set of indicators developed for 29 areas in 9 countries, we were taken to develop a conceptual model of these indicators, which associate to the different indicators their validity scope, specific interpretation and use. We have integrated the different indicators using conceptual maps (using CMap-Tool) and associating to them semantic labels. The web developed to manage the different projects includes these labels (it is a semantic web) and all the referenced texts have been labeled using them.
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Tolón-Becerra, A., Bienvenido, F. (2008). Conceptual Modeling in a Meta-model of Sustainability Indicators. In: Lovrek, I., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 5179. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85567-5_89
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