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Ontologies as the Key for Common Understanding of Infrastructure Assets
Infrastructure assets around the world are managed using Infrastructure Asset Management Systems (IAMSs). Although powerful and comprehensive, these systems poorly describe the asset’s geometry. Building Information Models (BIMs) are recently recognized as a tool to close this information gap. In order to achieve the full compatibility between BIM and various IAMSs, certain obstacles need to be overcome. Classification and representation of entities their properties, and relationships between them, in short, the ontologies underlying IAMS vary substantially between different National Road Authorities. This includes but is not limited to the decomposition of assets and naming conventions, i.e., taxonomy and semantics.
In the context of IAMSs, ontologies are hierarchically organized catalogues of concepts that abstract the infrastructure assets, specifying their properties and interrelations. Although every IAMS has a catalogue, or a dictionary, of the asset management terminology, not every catalog can be perceived as an ontology. Every dictionary, however, can be converted to ontology.
This paper converts two of such dictionaries (the Serbian and the Swiss one) into ontologies. The structure and the content of both dictionaries are analyzed. Afterward, the process of mapping each dictionary into an ontology is described.
Finally, the two ontologies are used to demonstrate how one BIM model can be differently incorporated in two different IAMSs.
Ontologies as the Key for Common Understanding of Infrastructure Assets
Infrastructure assets around the world are managed using Infrastructure Asset Management Systems (IAMSs). Although powerful and comprehensive, these systems poorly describe the asset’s geometry. Building Information Models (BIMs) are recently recognized as a tool to close this information gap. In order to achieve the full compatibility between BIM and various IAMSs, certain obstacles need to be overcome. Classification and representation of entities their properties, and relationships between them, in short, the ontologies underlying IAMS vary substantially between different National Road Authorities. This includes but is not limited to the decomposition of assets and naming conventions, i.e., taxonomy and semantics.
In the context of IAMSs, ontologies are hierarchically organized catalogues of concepts that abstract the infrastructure assets, specifying their properties and interrelations. Although every IAMS has a catalogue, or a dictionary, of the asset management terminology, not every catalog can be perceived as an ontology. Every dictionary, however, can be converted to ontology.
This paper converts two of such dictionaries (the Serbian and the Swiss one) into ontologies. The structure and the content of both dictionaries are analyzed. Afterward, the process of mapping each dictionary into an ontology is described.
Finally, the two ontologies are used to demonstrate how one BIM model can be differently incorporated in two different IAMSs.
Ontologies as the Key for Common Understanding of Infrastructure Assets
Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Pellegrino, Carlo (editor) / Faleschini, Flora (editor) / Zanini, Mariano Angelo (editor) / Matos, José C. (editor) / Casas, Joan R. (editor) / Strauss, Alfred (editor) / Isailović, Dušan (author) / Hajdin, Rade (author)
International Conference of the European Association on Quality Control of Bridges and Structures ; 2021 ; Padua, Italy
Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the European Association on Quality Control of Bridges and Structures ; Chapter: 122 ; 1073-1079
2021-12-12
7 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
Infrastructure Asset Management System (IAMS) , National Road Authority (NRA) , Ontology , Building Information Modeling (BIM) Engineering , Building Construction and Design , Engineering Economics, Organization, Logistics, Marketing , Risk Management , Fire Science, Hazard Control, Building Safety , Building Materials
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