Re: Ontology for geometric data?

Op vr 26 okt. 2018 om 11:33 schreef Martynas Jusevičius <
martynas@atomgraph.com>:

> Have you seen this thread? https://github.com/w3c-lbd-cg/bot/issues/41


No, I had not. But I see now it is very relevant, and I am happy to see
that this issue is discussed in this group! I agree with the viewpoint that
it should not be the task of a group with a focus on building information
to develop an ontology for a general concept like space/geometry. And it is
good to see people are looking over domain fences.

A fundamental problem seems to be that although geometry is important in
many domains that are growing towards sharing data on the web (at least the
GIS domain, the 2D/3D graphics domain and the BIM domain), there does not
seem to be a (W3C) group dedicated to modelling space independent of
industry domains.

Still, I think it would be a good start if this group tries to reuse
semantics defined in GeoSPARQL. Perhaps that could be a positive influence
for improving GeoSPARQL too. It is a standard by the OGC, but the OGC
intensively looking at the building domain and how building data can be
combined with geographical data.

Regards,
Frans



>
> On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 11:19 AM Frans Knibbe <frans.knibbe@geodan.nl>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I have recently finished a small research project in which BIM data from
> an IFC file were to be combined with geographical (GIS) data. A Linked Data
> based approach was also investigated, So it was an example of something
> that should be made possible by Linked Data: combining data from different
> domains. A known but difficult problem arises when this is tried: the
> information models and data formats for geometry in BIM and GIS are
> fundamentally different. Even when GIS and BIM data are made available as
> Linked Data, their geometric data are not interoperable.
> >
> > So my question is: Is anyone aware of an attempt to have more general
> (domain independent) specifications of spatial data on the semantic web? Or
> is this perhaps something that this group has already set out to do?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Frans
>