Making SimModel information available as RDF graphs

Pieter Pauwels, Edward Corry, James O'Donnell

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Abstract

Many building energy performance Simulation (BEPS) tools use custom schema definitions as opposed to standardised schema definitions (defined in XSD, EXPRESS, and so forth). A Simulation Domain Model (SimModel) was therefore previously developed and is representative of a new interoperable XML-based data model for the building simulation domain. In this paper we document our ongoing efforts to make building simulation data more interoperable with other building data. In order to better integrate SimModel information with other building information, the authors propose to represent this information in the Resource Description Framework (RDF). A specialised conversion service parses the SimModel ontology, which is in the form of linked XSD schemata, and output a SimModel ontology in OWL. In this article, we further outline how the conversion service now also parses input SimModel XML files and outputs SimModel instances as RDF graphs. We briefly indicated how those SimModel RDF graphs can subsequently be used.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationeWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction
Subtitle of host publicationProceedings of the 10th European Conference on Product and Process Modelling (ECPPM 2014)
EditorsArdeshir Mahdavi, Bob Martens, Raimar Scherer
PublisherCRC Press Taylor & Francis Group
Pages439-445
Number of pages7
ISBN (Print)978-1-315-73695-2
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Externally publishedYes
Event10th European Conference on Product and Process Modelling, ECPPM 2014 - Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria
Duration: 17 Sept 201419 Sept 2014

Conference

Conference10th European Conference on Product and Process Modelling, ECPPM 2014
Country/TerritoryAustria
CityVienna
Period17/09/1419/09/14

Bibliographical note

ugent:id 5706213 ugent:classification C1

Keywords

  • information
  • BIM
  • semantic web
  • construction
  • architecture
  • simmodel

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