CEO and CAMO ontologies : a circulation medium for materials in the construction industry

Ondertitel:CEO & CAMO ontologies : a circulation medium for materials in the construction industry

This paper evaluates the potential of semantic technologies to facilitate building material circulation in the construction industry within the Circular Economy (CE) context. It suggests building material passports as a data source for the materials to be circulated and then integrates them by means of Linked Data. A common language is proposed to combine and re-use the material data in the CE with the creation of two ontologies: Circular Exchange Ontology (CEO) and the Circular Materials and Activities Ontology (CAMO). The ontologies annotate materials under a CE classification scheme and describe the elements required for material exchange to occur: actors, the activities they perform and the referents of these activities (resources, products, tools and waste). An evaluation of the ontologies is made by means of use case-driven SPARQL queries. Further, a wide-scale evaluation addresses how a decentralized data ecosystem can enable users to publish information and dynamically interact with different repositories to exchange materials. Results indicate that these ontologies can foster a circulation medium between diverse construction industry resources. Future work contemplates validation of both ontologies in a real-world-setting with computer scientists and companies in the construction sector in the Benelux area.

ISBN:9781315228914

Jaar van publicatie:2019

BOF-keylabel:ja

IOF-keylabel:ja

Toegankelijkheid:Open