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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:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://neologism.ecs.soton.ac.uk/portals">http://neologism.ecs.soton.ac.uk/portals</a><br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.)<br>
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<p>Christopher Gutteridge — <a
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