[Buildingdata] Facilities data structure

[Christopher Gutteridge]

Hi, this is mostly for Alex, but I want any suggestions. I've been 
looking at how to share information on our facilities & equipment.

I've been looking at what data we need to publish. Initially I was 
looking at good relations, but I think a novel but simple vocab may be 
in order. Ideally this could work for businesses other than research orgs.

This is a straw man for improvement, not a final design. I'm not happy 
with a few things myself-- I think you need to relate items and 
facilities very clearly to both their organisation part (school of 
chemistry) and the legal entity operating them (university of badgerminster)

*oo:Facility* - A grouping of services and equipment. Nothing more 
formal should be interpreted from this without additional metadata.

     ?facility rdfs:label ?label .
     ?facility dcterms:description ?desc .
     ?facility 
<http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ontology/spatialrelations/within> 
?site_or_building_or_room .
     ?facility oo:facilityOf ?part_of_organisation .
     ?facility oo:facilityOf ?organisation .
     ?facility oo:contact ?an_agent .
     ?facility oo:facilityManager ?an_agent .
     ?facility oo:serviceLevel ( FullyServiced 
<http://id.southampton.ac.uk/ns/ServiceLevel-FullyServiced> | 
TechnicianAssistedTrainingRequired 
<http://id.southampton.ac.uk/ns/ServiceLevel-TechnicianAssistedTrainingRequired> 
| SelfService )
     ?image foaf:depicts ?facility .
     ?facility foaf:page ?page .
     ?facility foaf:homepage ?homepage .
*
oo:Equipment* - A physical item or items.
     ?equipment rdfs:label ?label .
     ?equipment oo:simplifiedLabel ?label .  // for us mortals that 
can't understand the 'real' name. Is there already something useful for 
this?
     ?equipment dcterms:description ?desc .
     ?equipment 
<http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ontology/spatialrelations/within> 
?site_or_building_or_room .
     ?equipment oo:equipmentOf ?part_of_organisation .
     ?equipment oo:equipmentOf ?organisation .
     ?equipment oo:relatedFacility ?facility .
     ?equipment oo:contact ?an_agent .
     ?equipment oo:serviceLevel ( FullyServiced 
<http://id.southampton.ac.uk/ns/ServiceLevel-FullyServiced> | 
TechnicianAssistedTrainingRequired 
<http://id.southampton.ac.uk/ns/ServiceLevel-TechnicianAssistedTrainingRequired> 
| SelfService )
     ?image foaf:depicts ?equipment .
     ?equipment foaf:page ?page .
     ?equipment foaf:homepage ?homepage .

*oo:Service* - A non-physical service offered by an organisation, 
generally via a facility.
     // basically the same as equipment. Possibly having a bit of 
equipment to which it relates if it's an additional separate service on 
a bit of kit.

*foaf:Agent *- A contact for something either a person, or a role (eg. 
an admin office)
    ?an_agent foaf:name ?name ; foaf:mbox ?email ; foaf:phone ?tel .


There's nothing about the value of the equipment or the costs in using. 
I'm not sure about that. Service level is a stab in the dark, and we 
probably want a "function" relation to say what things a facility or bit 
of equipment provides. I am assuming that location would be provided by 
the "within" or the location of the ?organisation. Service level we just 
made up as a first stab.

We have some equipment which doesn't belong to a facility, so it's just 
listed under which school it belongs to.

We may want to say some facilities are more formal, eg dcterms:confrmsTo 
... RCUK rules or somesuch.

For the purposes of our model, equipment is a deliberately vague term. 
It may be individual items OR a general availability of that item. eg. 
our clean-rooms have 4 ovens with the same location, rules and 
specifications. We may wish to just list that as a single item when 
sharing equipment lists.

We might want to consider some additional fields, such as a "technical 
description", "promotional description", manufaturers name & homepage. 
Manufacturers page for this item. etc...


Comments? ideas? bugs? existing work?

-- 
Christopher Gutteridge -- http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/1248

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