Abstract

       In the years since its creation in 1995, much debate has arisen surrounding the reliability, and usefulness of the Gender Development Index (GDI) in making adequate comparisons between different countries and in promoting gender-sensitive development. The GDI is particularly criticized for being often mistakenly interpreted as an independent measure of gender-gaps when it is not, in fact, intended to be interpreted in that way, because it can only be used in combination with the scores from the Human Development Index, but not on its own. Additionally, the data that is needed in order to calculate the GDI is not always readily available in many countries, making the measure very hard to calculate uniformly and internationally.

Table of Contents

Introduction

       GExp is an interactive Web tool to explore, filter, visualize and update the information concerning the disparities between women and men in three basic dimensions of human development: health, knowledge and living standards. This web-application offers various queries of interest. An example: the map of European states offering at least 13 years of schooling for females versus males, plus info about the most important universities in these areas.

Objectives

The main objective of the application is to transform one-star data (eg: xls, pdf, ...) into 5-star linked data(rdf, owl). The converted data would be provided to users in an interactive way allowing to filter and browse through different categories, gender, countries and years.

Architecture

Application architecture

Main workflow

Front-end

Update GExp data store

Used Techologies

Front-end

  • AngularJS
  • HTML5
  • CSS3
  • Ajax
  • Javascript
  • RDFa

Back-end

  • .NET
  • Pyton
  • REST API
  • SPARQL

Data store

  • StarDog
  • RDF files
  • OWL files

Tools

  • Open refine
  • Any23
  • Protege

API Specification

SWAGGER

Resources

We use resources from the following websites:

Authors

References and bibliography