Fwd: [Fwd: [Moderator Action] RE: ISSUE-23: How to relate a person to a building/room? [People]]

FYI.
Cheers,
 Michael
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> From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
> Date: 3 February 2012 13:31:37 GMT
> To: "michael.hausenblas" <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>
> Subject: [Fwd: [Moderator Action] RE: ISSUE-23: How to relate a  
> person to a building/room? [People]]
>
> These two messages didn't go out to the group because she's not on the
> list.   Maybe you should forward them to the group....?
>
>   - s
>
>
> From: "MacPherson, Deborah" <dmacpherson@CANNONDESIGN.COM>
> Date: 2 February 2012 17:41:04 GMT
> To: Michael Hausenblas <michael.hausenblas@deri.org>, "rreck@rrecktek.com 
> " <rreck@rrecktek.com>
> Cc: W3C GLD WG <public-gld-wg@w3.org>
> Subject: [Moderator Action] RE: ISSUE-23: How to relate a person to  
> a building/room? [People]
>
>
> Thanks, glad this was helpful. Building data is advancing.
>
> The US National Building Information Modeling Standard (NBIMS)  
> version 2 is about to be published. I submitted a ballot for  
> compliance with W3CXML because a couple projects were veering too  
> far off into special flavors of XML; and as we move forward other  
> W3C standards such as Scalable Vector Graphics and RDF are  
> underutilized. We are forming a Data Architecture committee and at  
> some point would like to have a meeting about NBIMS and W3C  
> standards. What is the best way to exchange ideas to help move both  
> efforts along in harmonization?
>
> Regards
>
> Deborah MacPherson
>
> DEBORAH MACPHERSON, CSI CCS, AIA
> Specifications and Research
>
> Cannon Design
> 1100 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 2900
> Arlington, Virginia 22209
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> Direct Line 703 907 2353
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> dmacpherson@cannondesign.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Hausenblas [mailto:michael.hausenblas@deri.org]
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2012 10:28 AM
> To: rreck@rrecktek.com
> Cc: W3C GLD WG; MacPherson, Deborah
> Subject: Re: ISSUE-23: How to relate a person to a building/room?  
> [People]
>
>
> Excellent, thanks, Ronald (and Deborah!)
>
> As I said, maybe we should focus on the use cases first, then derive  
> requirements and determine if building/rooms (and any other entity  
> type, really) is in scope or not.
>
> In any case, this is valuable insight and will certainly be of great  
> use, down the line ...
>
> Cheers,
>  Michael
> --
> Dr. Michael Hausenblas, Research Fellow
> LiDRC - Linked Data Research Centre
> DERI - Digital Enterprise Research Institute NUIG - National  
> University of Ireland, Galway Ireland, Europe Tel. +353 91 495730 http://linkeddata.deri.ie/ 
>  http://sw-app.org/about.html
>
> On 30 Jan 2012, at 15:23, Ronald P. Reck wrote:
>
>> My friend Deborah and I have discussed this and similar issues for
>> several years now, and this is what she replied when I asked her.
>> She is willing to talk about it, if anyone would like to find out
>> more.
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: RE: ISSUE-23: How to relate a person to a building/room?
>> [People]
>> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:13:18 -0500
>> From: MacPherson, Deborah <dmacpherson@CANNONDESIGN.COM>
>> To: rreck@rrecktek.com <rreck@rrecktek.com>
>>
>> Hi Ron
>>
>> To represent buildings - OmniClass Tables 11 and 12
>> (http://www.omniclass.org
>> ) is facility types by function and by form, Table 11 (function) is
>> currently being updated. Attached is a mapping between existing Table
>> 11 with International Code Council occupancy classes.
>>
>> There is also OGC CityGML http://schemas.opengis.net/citygml/. Even
>> though the facility types are not very good, CityGML is still a  
>> useful
>> overall schema that includes geometry.
>>
>> The Open Standards for Real Estate Consortium (OSCRE) has a terrific
>> new proposal for Real Property Unique ID's (RPUID) like vehicle
>> identification numbers, need a non-profit org like ICANN to  
>> maintain a
>> registry.
>>
>> RE: VCard - the IETF and SmartGrid people are working on some
>> interesting ideas to identify building capabilities at a glance...
>>
>> Moving inside the building:
>>
>> For rooms - OmniClass Tables 13 and 14 - spaces by function and  
>> spaces
>> by form. Table 13 was just approved by the US National Building
>> Information Modeling Standard (NBIMS). Table 14 is in development and
>> is an ideal link to GIS.
>>
>> To relate a person to the building/room - ideal would be pulling a
>> subset from NIEM with extensive definitions and relations about
>> people, and the attached spreadsheet.
>>
>> RE: the Buildings and Rooms Vocabulary [1] would in fact be capable  
>> to
>> do this, however the namespace is sub-optimal, in terms of stability.
>> I think the classes are all wrong and need to be more like the
>> attached "NBIMHierarchicalRelationship" where a room is part of a
>> floor rather than vice-versa. Also "zone" is more a appropriate
>> concept than floor section. "Desk" might not be as useful as "Seat"
>> if tracking computers and workers.
>>
>> "Occupant" is the right concept for a person - however - there more
>> parameters such as typical operating hours, whether people live there
>> etc. are needed to be useful.
>>
>> Finally "Facility" is the preferred term because building is both a
>> noun and a verb and has all kinds of other connotations in other
>> domains.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Deb
>>
>>
>> DEBORAH MACPHERSON, CSI CCS, AIA
>> Specifications and Research
>>
>> Cannon Design
>> 1100 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 2900
>> Arlington, Virginia 22209
>>
>> Direct Line 703 907 2353
>> 4 Digit Dial 6353
>>
>> dmacpherson@cannondesign.com
>> cannondesign.com
>>
>> ü Please consider the environment before printing this email.
>>
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: ISSUE-23: How to relate a person to a building/room?  
>> [People]
>> Resent-Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:07:29 +0000
>> Resent-From: public-gld-wg@w3.org
>> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2012 11:07:24 +0000
>> From: Government Linked Data Working Group Issue Tracker
>> <sysbot+tracker@w3.org
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>> To: public-gld-wg@w3.org
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>>
>> ISSUE-23: How to relate a person to a building/room? [People]
>>
>> http://www.w3.org/2011/gld/track/issues/23
>>
>> Raised by: Michael Hausenblas
>> On product: People
>>
>> There are really two issues here, namely how to represent buildings
>> and rooms  and how to relate a person to the building/room. It seems
>> that the Buildings and Rooms Vocabulary [1] would in fact be capable
>> to do this, however the namespace is sub-optimal, in terms of
>> stability.
>>
>> [1] http://vocab.deri.ie/rooms#
>>
>>
>> <NBIMHierarchicalRelationship.jpg><FacilityTypeTemplate.xls>
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