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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Beisel, Monika"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Software tool for single source multiple media and multiple requirement sustainability reporting
    (Sh@ring – EnviroInfo 2004, 2004) Isenmann, Ralf; Beisel, Monika; Brosowski, Jan; Marx-Gómez, Jorge
    In this paper, the development of a software tool is described. This software tool provides single source multiple media and multiple requirement sustainability reporting”, and thus makes the concept of internet-based sustainability reporting actually work. The software development is a joint project carried out by the Department of Business Information Systems and Operations Research (BiOR) at the University of Kaiserslautern, Germany, and the Institute for Technical and Business Information Systems at the Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Germany. Single source multiple media and multiple requirement sustainability reporting is considered as the cutting edge approach in the rapidly developing field of advanced environmental and sustainability reporting using the internet. Such a comprehensive and forward-looking approach offers a variety of added value creating features compared with early environmental and sustainability reporting stages. For example, it provides a set of relevant contents (environmental, economic, social issues and mutual interrelations) that comprise the core themes for corporate sustainability, different media (print media, internet, CD-ROM etc.), it uses corresponding distributing principles (push, pull), it enables different views on the report contents, and it offers various presentation styles (media-specific, target group tailored). In technical terms, such a software tool is fully supported by an underlying ICT infrastructure that has its basis in using the internet and employing XML. As a practical application, this reporting approach is currently implemented as a software prototype. At the heart of its ICT architecture lies Cocoon, a Java-based, modular structured open source publishing framework, able to process XML documents, XML DTDs and XML Schemas, and thus suitable to perform single source multiple media and multiple requirement sustainability reporting.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    XML Schema for sustainability reports meeting the needs of the GRI guidelines
    (Sh@ring – EnviroInfo 2004, 2004) Brosowski, Jan; Isenmann, Ralf; Beisel, Monika; Marx-Gómez, Jorge
    In this paper, an outline is given of how to develop a comprehensive XML Schema for corporate sustainability reports. In order to ensure methodological rigour, this development is based on prior experience in designing XML Document Type Definitions (DTDs) for environmental reports; further, it is embedded into an overall process with the goal to promote the standardisation of document structures for advanced environmental and sustainability reporting using internet technologies and services. The XML Schema in particular meets the “Sustainability Reporting Guidelines” of the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), released in 2002, and a number of other reporting requirements, e.g. the revised European Eco-Management and Audit Scheme “EMAS II”, the international standard ISO 14001 on “Environmental Management Systems”, the German standard DIN 33922 “Environmental Reports for the Public”, the early international guideline on “Company Environmental Reporting” proposed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and SustainAbility, its German counterpart “Environmental Reports – Environmental Statements. Guidelines on Preparation and Distribution” recommended through future e.V. and the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW), and a recently published publicly available specification (PAS) on the “Data exchange between ERP Systems and Environmental Information Systems”. The rationale why the XML Schema is explicitly focused on the GRI guidelines is that GRI represents the most forceful standard-setting organisation in the field of environmental and sustainability reporting, and thus its requirements will most likely become the de facto standard for sustainability reports, worldwide. Companies exactly meeting the needs of the GRI are reporting “in accordance with GRI” that is probably one of the highest levels of ensuring quality, rigour and utility within the field.