[Buildingdata] Re: Portals

[Nick Gibbins]

Less flippantly, this looks like a sensible approach. Might be worth
looking at the vocabulary that John Goodwin produced for geographical
areas (using RCC8); I think that your 'connects' property is just a
variation on the mereotopological adjacency relation. The subproperties
*might* be a bit of overkill (you can probably infer the type of the
property from the types of things that are connected together), but 
otherwise it all looks reasonable.

Nick

On 16 Sep 2014, at 16:21, Christopher Gutteridge <cjg at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> A while back I was working on a vocabulary to describe entrances, exists and doors, what they gave access/egress from and what they were the best entrance/exit to use for a given spatial thing: http://neologism.ecs.soton.ac.uk/portals
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> It seems a bit complicated but most of it is just a repeating pattern for rooms,floors, buildings,sites. Basically, any "portal" can cause you to enter/exit/change what room,floor,building,site you are in.
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> A lift or stairwell can be modelled as a portal that allows you to change between the floors of a building. The front door for a house gives access to (and egress from) all of: the house, the ground floor, the hallway.
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> The "part of day" bit is a little sketchy but it's to allow statements about daytime, evening, night, which at Southampton is the most specific we can get access rules for most buildings. I'm not 100% convinced about the use subpredicates for types of security and accessibility.
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> While this is kinda exhaustive, for now we only currently plan to use it for recommending the best entrances to use for various lecture theatres (some of our buildings have multiple entrances on multiple levels so we hope this will help student satisfaction in some small way.)
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