Poverty and social exclusion are a reality in every society.
They are complex problems that require updated information
and access to scattered data sources to make a proper assessment
of a person’s situation. To help social workers with these
tasks, we developed the Lindaview tool at the suggestion of
the Social Services Department of the Barcelona City Council.
Assessment of individuals seeking social assistance is not
standardized, as it depends entirely on the social worker’s
perception and experience. We design a tool that provides an
informed starting point for the assessment of an individual’s
self-sufficiency. Furthermore, we included a section of general
statistics, allowing policymakers to access comprehensive,
updated, and timely information, empowering them to make
data-based decisions when allocating available resources.
Lindaview is an OBDA-based tool. OBDA (Ontology-
Based Data Access) is a paradigm that allows accessing data
from its original source without data migration or updates on
the original data architecture. Moreover, with this paradigm,
we can infer implicit information via ontology reasoning
