About
Developed under the leadership of the Statistics Division and the Division for Sustainable Development Goals’ (DSDG) of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the system of Internationalized Resource Identifiers (IRIs) for SDG, Targets, Indicators and related statistical series is part of the semantic web infrastructure that the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library makes publicly available on its metadataun.org platform.
It formalizes links between the goals, targets, indicators and series, and two other crucial elements in the Linked Open Data infrastructure, namely: (1) the UNBIS Thesaurus maintained by the UN Dag Hammarskjold Library, and (2) the SDG Interface Ontology (SDGIO), maintained by UN Environment.
The SDG Taxonomy has been adopted by the UN System Chief Executives Board for Coordination (CEB).
The unique identifiers allow the use of semantic web technologies to:
• Provide a web-based mechanism to make SDG-related data and information assets accessible, inter-operable and re-usable,
• Organically discover relevant and authoritative SDG data and information among the multitude of available sources on the web
• Enable the development of applications that integrate authoritative data, concepts and definitions from a large number of formerly unknown sources.
Metadata about the SDG Ontology/KOS in a machine-accessible VoID/LIME file is available at http://metadata.un.org/sdg/void.ttl
Terms of use
Copyright, United Nations. Non-commercial use, with attribution. Use of content provided by the Library is subject to the terms and conditions of use of UN websites (http://www.un.org/en/sections/about-website/terms-use/index.html) and the Dag Hammarskjöld Library Data Terms of Use (https://digitallibrary.un.org/pages/?ln=en&page=tos)
Citation
United Nations, Sustainable Development Goals Taxonomy, 2024, downloaded from http://metadata.un.org/sdg/ [Consultation or Download date]
References
Amit Joshi, Luis Gonzalez Morales, Szymon Klarman, and Aaron Helton. A Knowledge Organization System for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. In: Verborgh, R., et al. The Semantic Web. ESWC 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12731. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77385-4_33