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

[Christopher Gutteridge]

I'd not realised that had a whole section about Equipment, Facilities 
and Services. We certainly shouldn't reinvent that wheel again, given 
this looks pretty solid. I'm not sure about the dated relationships 
between components-- but it is an elegant solution... In fact I'm 
tempted to suggest we might want to consider it for the buildings DB 
over "rooms:occupies" as it handles the issues of changes-of-truth much 
better, but hardly hurts consumption. I can't tell if you're supposed to 
have URI for each relationship between 2 things, or you could just list 
a single dated relation between a building and it's related facilities?

We're still early enough in laying out patterns that we can wiggle lots 
without cost.

Our draft pattern is on the wiki here, by the way: 
http://openorg.ecs.soton.ac.uk/wiki/Facilities_and_Equipment


On 05/03/12 11:53, Alexander Dutton wrote:
> 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
>
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