

Section to be consolidated with the Final Draft of the Linked Building Data Community Group Use Cases & Requirements ] See also in this regard the discussion in the accompanying publication ], Sec. It does not provide a generic description of topological relationships as, for instance, the Regional Connection Calculus (RCC) ]. It was suggested as an extensible baseline for use along with more domain specific ontologies following general W3C principles of encouraging reuse and keeping the schema no more complex than necessary.īOT is from design scoped to describe topology specific to the buildings domain. The Building Topology Ontology (BOT) is a minimal OWL DL ] ontology for defining relationships between the sub-components of a building. As there is often a need to describe some sensor, product, device in the context of the building in which it sits and as the building is itself also a feature of interest in the context of a smart city, there is a demand for a minimal, extendable ontology that describes anything in its context of a building. Several industries have interfaces to the construction industry and buildings in particular without this being their main industry.
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Furthermore, each stakeholder consumes, processes and manipulates information about the building during it's full life cycle. Introductionĭesigning, planning, constructing and maintaining a building are tasks that involve multiple stakeholders each having their own interpretations and requirements for the common dataset. The document is released at this time to solicit public comment. The document is prepared following W3C conventions. This is a Public Draft of a document prepared by the Linked Building Data Community Group ( LBD). The Turtle version of the BOT ontology is available at The suggested prefix for the BOT namespace is

The Building Topology Ontology (BOT) is a minimal ontology for describing the core topological concepts of a building.
