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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Morhardt, J. Emil"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Automated Reporting of Corporate Sustainability Data – an Analog of Automated Internet-based Sustainability Reporting Using XML
    (Environmental Informatics and Industrial Ecology, 2008) Morhardt, J. Emil
    Extracting information from corporate sustainability reports for analysis is a labor-intensive process fraught with risks of misclassifying or missing relevant material. The use of a GRI index helps to some extent, but the main problem is a lack of standardization of language that would make automated searching feasible. The need for such standardization would be entirely obviated if every piece of data in the report were tagged in some machine-readable way, such as XML. This paper discusses a parallel process in which all data generated by the Roberts Environmental Center reside in specific database fields and are extracted automatically on demand to meet the needs of web pages and reports. The data for the web pages are retrieved in XML-tagged format for the purposes of driving web page graphics. These data are embedded in the web pages and could be processed by end users, if they wished, to create tables or other output in addition to the graphs. Exactly the same database-querying techniques could return all the data about a specific report in our database in a single XML document. Such an approach might be useful for companies wishing to tag their sustainability reports with XML. If all of the data for the report, including text blocks, were contained in a database (as is the case for all Roberts Center reports), the XML extraction routine would need to be written only once, and new data would automatically be available to web pages parsing the XML. Analyzing the content of such reports would be greatly simplified.
  • Konferenzbeitrag
    Electronic presentation styles of corporate sustainability information and how they reflect the quality of reporting
    (Sh@ring – EnviroInfo 2004, 2004) Morhardt, J. Emil; Adidjaja, Elgeritte
    The environmental and social information available from web sites of all 95 firms in the 2003 Fortune Global 500 and Fortune 1000 chemical, electronics, and pharmaceutical sectors were analyzed with respect to quality of reporting relative to web presentation style. Quality of reporting was analyzed using the Pacific Sustainability Index (PSI) which assesses coverage of 140 environmental and social topics. Presentation styles were categorized as ad hoc (isolated relevant web pages), non-linear hyperlinked web pages (intended as formal environmental or sustainability reporting but not formatted as print-style reports), formal reports directly converted from print to electronic form (usually PDF), and enhanced converted-from-print embodying hyperlinks and other web-specific features. PSI scores were highest for reports that were converted from print, particularly when enhanced with web features. The latter presentation style was adopted by the largest companies, so that quality may be as much a reflection of resources as of choice of presentation styles. Nevertheless, it is clear that print, even though delivered by internet and often accompanied by an HTML version with similar or identical information, remains a presentation medium of choice for the largest companies and produces the best reports.