IV, it sounds interesting. On the slides, is the constuction analyst
Deborah -
Really interesting. Some more information. The OGC and NIBS/IAI have a
memorandum of understanding. We (and our respective memberships) have
been
collaborating on a variety of issues related to BIM and IFC
interoperability
between the Building, CAD, and Geo domains. Considerable progress has
been
made at this more fundamental level. The current state of the work was
demonstrated last month as part of the OGC Web Services 4
Interoperability
initiative. I have attached a couple of slides that capture how IFC
based
content can be utilized and integrated with other geo content sources
for
use in decision support, in this case for emergency services. At this
point,
the work is more focused on getting the technical interoperability
foundation solid with basic semantics being a component of this work.
The above efforts do not explicitly address making recommendations on
ontologies that span and connect disciplines, but they are all steps in
that
direction and various dialogues have been happening regarding semantics
and
ontologies for creating a truly virtual as-built or to be built world.
Regards
Carl
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From: Deborah MacPherson
To: [ontolog-forum]
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2007 5:30 AM
Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] the case for an open research group
Thanks John and Carl. I work with architectural specifications and
typically use MasterFormat 2004, Uniformat II and sometimes OmniClass. I
believe the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) is the preferred standard
used
in between construction document standards and geographic standards such
as
OGC. Building Information Modelling (BIM) aims to interoperate with all
the
above some day in the future.
An ontology I am really looking for, or want to develop. is a method of
mapping between sets of standards using time, location, and data's
actual
use. For example, say you had a museum in a standardized geographic
location
and the building is modeled in BIM, the real museum is in a country with
a
culture, the objects in the museum were made and interpreted by that
culture
for one reason or another at different points in time. Could virtual
places
also be made to apply real world standards such as OGC and IFC to
organize
the collection databases as well? Tell the story of places through their
buildings and displayed objects using systems probably made for
different
purposes. Get the whole process into an easy language, an ontology, so
curators and others who have data to share can place it where they think
it
belongs.
Any recommendations on ontologies made to span across and connect
disciplines using each areas own sets of standards?
The reason I
ask is that there is a tremendous amount of standards work already
done
that
allows simple _expression_ of location. There is also an excellent
standard
for expressing location and temporal location.
And for those who are looking for
more than the "simple _expression_ of location",
I refer newcomers to the pointers in the 'Spatial Ontology Baseline'
given at:
John Bateman
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