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Hi, this is mostly for Alex, but I want any suggestions. I've been
looking at how to share information on our facilities &
equipment.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
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)<br>
<br>
<b>oo:Facility</b> - A grouping of services and equipment. Nothing
more formal should be interpreted from this without additional
metadata.<br>
<br>
?facility rdfs:label ?label .<br>
?facility dcterms:description ?desc .<br>
?facility <<a
title="http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ontology/spatialrelations/within"
href="http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ontology/spatialrelations/within"
style="text-decoration: none; color: green;">http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ontology/spatialrelations/within</a>>
?site_or_building_or_room .<br>
?facility oo:facilityOf ?part_of_organisation .<br>
?facility oo:facilityOf ?organisation .<br>
?facility oo:contact ?an_agent .<br>
?facility oo:facilityManager ?an_agent .<br>
?facility oo:serviceLevel ( <a
title="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/ns/ServiceLevel-FullyServiced"
href="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/ns/ServiceLevel-FullyServiced"
style="text-decoration: none;">FullyServiced</a> | <a
title="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/ns/ServiceLevel-TechnicianAssistedTrainingRequired"
href="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/ns/ServiceLevel-TechnicianAssistedTrainingRequired"
style="text-decoration: none;">TechnicianAssistedTrainingRequired</a>
| SelfService )<br>
?image foaf:depicts ?facility .<br>
?facility foaf:page ?page .<br>
?facility foaf:homepage ?homepage .<br>
<b><br>
oo:Equipment</b> - A physical item or items. <br>
?equipment rdfs:label ?label .<br>
?equipment oo:simplifiedLabel ?label . // for us mortals that
can't understand the 'real' name. Is there already something useful
for this?<br>
?equipment dcterms:description ?desc .<br>
?equipment <<a
title="http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ontology/spatialrelations/within"
href="http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ontology/spatialrelations/within"
style="text-decoration: none; color: green;">http://data.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ontology/spatialrelations/within</a>>
?site_or_building_or_room .<br>
?equipment oo:equipmentOf ?part_of_organisation .<br>
?equipment oo:equipmentOf ?organisation .<br>
?equipment oo:relatedFacility ?facility .<br>
?equipment oo:contact ?an_agent .<br>
?equipment oo:serviceLevel ( <a
title="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/ns/ServiceLevel-FullyServiced"
href="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/ns/ServiceLevel-FullyServiced"
style="text-decoration: none;">FullyServiced</a> | <a
title="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/ns/ServiceLevel-TechnicianAssistedTrainingRequired"
href="http://id.southampton.ac.uk/ns/ServiceLevel-TechnicianAssistedTrainingRequired"
style="text-decoration: none;">TechnicianAssistedTrainingRequired</a>
| SelfService )<br>
?image foaf:depicts ?equipment .<br>
?equipment foaf:page ?page .<br>
?equipment foaf:homepage ?homepage .<br>
<br>
<b>oo:Service</b> - A non-physical service offered by an
organisation, generally via a facility. <br>
// 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.<br>
<br>
<b>foaf:Agent </b>- A contact for something either a person, or a
role (eg. an admin office)<br>
?an_agent foaf:name ?name ; foaf:mbox ?email ; foaf:phone ?tel .
<br>
<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
We have some equipment which doesn't belong to a facility, so it's
just listed under which school it belongs to.<br>
<br>
We may want to say some facilities are more formal, eg
dcterms:confrmsTo ... RCUK rules or somesuch.<br>
<br>
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.<br>
<br>
We might want to consider some additional fields, such as a
"technical description", "promotional description", manufaturers
name & homepage. Manufacturers page for this item. etc...<br>
<br>
<br>
Comments? ideas? bugs? existing work?<br>
<br>
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