Assist the Sustainable Development within Industries through the Territorial Knowledge Ontology

Abstract

Studying of territory as the main dimension of sustainability impact in the industrial activities and decision makers’ information when considering the sustainability in their activities. Therefore, exploring of territorial knowledge in order to integrate into industries activates is needed. So, this research is proposed a descriptive ontology for territorial knowledge (DOTK) which make explicit the knowledge of actors within industries about the sustainable development goal. Also, implementation of this ontology to a real case is proved that it can identify the intangible and tangible resources of territory for sustainability. Moreover, a semantic graph is proposed which shows the relationships between entities of DOTK ontology. Final validation of DOTK ontology is performed by the interview with the organizations of sustainable development implementation.