Ontology catalogue for energy efficiency ontologies

1. 4th VoCamp on Integrating multiple domains and scales
La Salle Engineering and Architecture School. Barcelona, 13-14 February 2014
SESSION 1. Modelling Urban Energy Systems
determining the boundaries and objectives of urban energy systems.
eeOntology Catalogue
http://energy.linkeddata.es/
María Poveda Villalón (mpoveda@fi.upm.es)
Twitter: @LD4ee
4th VoCamp on Integrating multiple domains and scales – eeOntology Catalogue M. Poveda
Barcelona, 13 February 2014

2. MARÍA POVEDA-VILLALON – UPM – READY4SMARTCITIES
- María Poveda Villalón (mpoveda@fi.upm.es)
- 3rd year PhD student at Ontology Engineering Group, Madrid
- Ontology engineering
- Lightweight methodology for building ontologies (Linked Data use case)
- Ontology evaluation.
- OOPS! OntOlogy Pitfall Scanner! (http://www.oeg-upm.net/oops/)
- Projects: Ready4SmartCities
4th VoCamp on Integrating multiple domains and scales – eeOntology Catalogue M. Poveda
Barcelona, 13 February 2014

3. Motivation for an eeOntology Catalogue
• Facilitate ontology reuse
– There are many ontologies (and other resources) useful to
describe energy and cross-domain data
• One place to discover ontologies
– It is not trivial to find them
• Specific for energy efficiency and smart cities
– Search engines and ontology registries are too general or
off-topic (biology, environment, etc.)
• Ontology assessment
– The quality of ontologies in the Web is unknown
4th VoCamp on Integrating multiple domains and scales – eeOntology Catalogue M. Poveda
Barcelona, 13 February 2014

4. GOALS
• Minimal effort from the community using a web form
– Automatic process for generating a catalogue
• To collect eeModels:
– Ontologies: rdf-s, OWL, skos
– Other type of models: pdf, xml, uml, etc.
• Semi-automatic quality assessment
– Curated metadata
– Ontology evaluation
4th VoCamp on Integrating multiple domains and scales – eeOntology Catalogue M. Poveda
Barcelona, 13 February 2014

5. The process: Minimal effort from the
community
http://goo.gl/SG0pMA
RDF
representation
Web form
http://energy.linkeddata.es/
eeOntology catalogue
Stakeholders
and contributors
4th VoCamp on Integrating multiple domains and scales – eeOntology Catalogue M. Poveda
Barcelona, 13 February 2014

6. To collect eeOntologies: web-based form
Identifier
Name
Description
Domains
Version
Creation date
Last update
Contact
person
Publisher
License
URI
Namespace
Format
Ontology
language
Language
Comments
References
Definition
The name given to the ontology
A free-text account of the ontology
The different domains covered by the ontology
The version of the ontology
The date of formal issuance of the ontology
Most recent date on which the ontology was changed, updated
or modified
The person(s) primarily responsible for making the ontology
The organization that published the ontology
The license of the ontology
The URI of the ontology
The preferred namespace URI to use when using terms from
this vocabulary
The format of the ontology
The language in which the ontology is implemented
The language of the ontology
Further information about the ontology in the context of our
catalogue
Resources that might provide additional information
(documents, papers, etc.)
http://goo.gl/SG0pMA
4th VoCamp on Integrating multiple domains and scales – eeOntology Catalogue M. Poveda
Barcelona, 13 February 2014

7. eeOntology Catalogue
Contributions
Available
online?
Open
license?
Following
W3C
standards?
Other information
Codes
4th VoCamp on Integrating multiple domains and scales – eeOntology Catalogue M. Poveda
Barcelona, 13 February 2014

8. Semi-automatic quality assessment
• Manual metadata curation by UPM
• Manual assessment indicators:
– Is the ontology available following the W3C
standards (SKOS, RDF-S or OWL)?
– Is the ontology available under an open license?
• Automatic assessment:
– Is the ontology available on the Web (whatever
format)?
– OOPS! - OntOtology Pitfall Scanner http://www.oeg-upm.net/oops/
4th VoCamp on Integrating multiple domains and scales – eeOntology Catalogue M. Poveda
Barcelona, 13 February 2014

9. Conclusions
• Online eeOntology catalogue
– Curated metadata
– Evaluated ontologies
• Transparent process for contributors
– 15-30 minutes to fill in the web form
http://energy.linkeddata.es/
4th VoCamp on Integrating multiple domains and scales – eeOntology Catalogue M. Poveda
Barcelona, 13 February 2014

10. Future work
• Online eeOntology catalogue
– To collect the relevant ontologies
– To include evaluation features
• OOPS! - OntOtology Pitfall Scanner -
http://www.oeg-upm.net/oops/
• Online eeModel catalogue
– To create a web form for gathering eeModels
– To collect relevant eeModels
4th VoCamp on Integrating multiple domains and scales – eeOntology Catalogue M. Poveda
Barcelona, 13 February 2014

11. Questions?
Thank you for your attention!
Web form for collecting ontologies: http://goo.gl/SG0pMA
Ontology catalogue online: http://energy.linkeddata.es/
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4th VoCamp on Integrating multiple domains and scales – eeOntology Catalogue M. Poveda
Barcelona, 13 February 2014