[Buildingdata] Modelling facilities and equipment (for the EPSRC equipment sharing initiative)

[Alexander Dutton]

Hi all,

You may be aware of an EPSRC-sponsored initiative between Cambridge,
Imperial, Oxford, Southampton and UCL to share information about
research facilities and equipment to encourage greater sharing of
resources. By the looks of it there's no public website, and our website
is limited to the Oxford network.

David Shotton last week suggested that CERIF
(http://www.eurocris.org/Index.php?page=CERIFreleases&t=1) might be
something to look at for modelling some aspects of this. From an initial
exploration, CERIF 1.3 onwards contains XML elements for describing
facilities, equipment and services, and there is an RDF vocabulary
(http://spi-fm.uca.es/neologism/cerif/) for such terms, all subclassing
cerif:InfrastructureEntity. The ontology as a whole does a lot of
wheel-reinvention, but there may be some useful terms in there.

Following on from this, I think it does make sense to consider using
goodrelations for advertising availability, and maybe coming up with
some common terms for classes of eligible customers.

Yours,

Alex