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

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.

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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
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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#