Building Information Model (BIM) Ontology
- Title
- Building Information Model (BIM) Ontology
- URI
- http://www.bimtoolset.org/ontologies/IntUBE-EnergyBIM.owl
- Description
- The Building Information Model (BIM) ontology models the building domain (buildings, building parts, energy installations, etc.).
- Languages
- English
- Ontology languages
- OWL
- Ontology format
- RDF/XML
- Alignments
- See alignments
Evaluation results
The following evaluation results have been generated by the RESTFul web service provided by OOPS! (OntOlogy Pitfall Scanner!).
It is obvious that not all the pitfalls are equally important; their impact in the ontology will depend on multiple factors. For this reason, each pitfall has an importance level attached indicating how important it is. We have identified three levels:
- Critical
- It is crucial to correct the pitfall. Otherwise, it could affect the ontology consistency, reasoning, applicability, etc.
- Important
- Though not critical for ontology function, it is important to correct this type of pitfall.
- Minor
- It is not really a problem, but by correcting it we will make the ontology nicer.
Guidelines in [5] suggest avoiding file extension in persistent URIs, particularly those related to the technology used, as for example ".php" or ".py". In our case we have adapted it to the ontology web languages used to formalized ontologies and their serializations. In this regard, we consider as pitfall including file extensions as ".owl", ".rdf", ".ttl", ".n3" and ".rdfxml" in an ontology URI. An example of this pitfall (at 29th June, 2012) could be found in the "BioPAX Level 3 ontology (biopax)" ontologyÕs URI (http://www.biopax.org/release/biopax-level3.owl) that contains the extension ".owl" related to the technology used.
*This pitfall applies to the ontology in general instead of specific elements and it appears in the ontology URI: http://www.bimtoolset.org/ontologies/IntUBE-EnergyBIM.owl
It is crucial you solve this if you want to contribute to the Semantic Web. You can follow the guidelines at LinkToDiegoRecipes to publish your ontology. If your ontology is correctly published and we have made an error detecting this pitfall please let us know and we will solve it a.s.a.p.
*This pitfall applies to the ontology in general instead of specific elements
References:
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- [4] Hogan, A., Harth, A., Passant, A., Decker, S., Polleres, A. Weaving the Pedantic Web. Linked Data on the Web Workshop LDOW2010 at WWW2010 (2010).
- [5] Archer, P., Goedertier, S., and Loutas, N. D7.1.3 – Study on persistent URIs, with identification of best practices and recommendations on the topic for the MSs and the EC. Deliverable. December 17, 2012.
- [6] Heath, T., Bizer, C.: Linked data: Evolving the Web into a global data space (1st edition). Morgan & Claypool (2011).