Re:Ask HN: Who uses ontologies in practice and for what use ...
by sebast_bake on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @07:05AM
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They're increasingly being used in the building automation industry to describe HVAC and lighting systems for analytics purposes.
RDF suits because inference allows it to deal with massive scope of data (the amount of different hvac products and configurations in buildings is crazy), and prevents vendor lock in (a surprisingly common concern in that industry).
The two relevant schemas are Project Haystack[0], and Brick Schema[1].
As far as I know, the most mature analytics provider is Skyspark[2].
Re:Ask HN: Who uses ontologies in practice and for what use ...
by GianFabien on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @04:25AM
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I find ontologies useful in the preamble of requirements documents to define the terms and concepts that will be later used in the body of the document.
Generally they are simple and accepted concepts for the domain specialists, but not well understood by programmers who have to read the requirements and business analysis documents.
RDF suits because inference allows it to deal with massive scope of data (the amount of different hvac products and configurations in buildings is crazy), and prevents vendor lock in (a surprisingly common concern in that industry).
The two relevant schemas are Project Haystack[0], and Brick Schema[1].
As far as I know, the most mature analytics provider is Skyspark[2].
Super interesting space.
[0] https://project-haystack.org/ [1] https://brickschema.org/ [2] https://skyfoundry.com/product
[0] https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/solutions_en
[1] https://ec.europa.eu/isa2/solutions/core-vocabularies_en
(but maybe you meant this question in a more general sense, not specific examples)
Generally they are simple and accepted concepts for the domain specialists, but not well understood by programmers who have to read the requirements and business analysis documents.
see: https://www.w3.org/TR/owl-features/