Integration of environmental data in BIM tool & linked building data

Environmental assessment is a critical need to ensure building sustainability. In order to enhance the sustainability of building, involved actors should be able to access and share not only information about the building but also data about products and especially their environmental assessment. Among several approaches that have been proposed to achieve that, semantic web technologies stand out from the crowd by their capabilities to share data and enhance interoperability in between the most heterogeneous systems. This paper presents the implementation of a method in which semantic web technologies and particularly Linked Data have been combined with Building Information Modelling (BIM) tools to foster building sustainability by introducing products with their environmental assessment in building data during the modelling phase. Based on Linked Building Data (LBD) vocabularies and environmental data, several ontologies have been generated in order to make both of them available as Resource Description Framework (RDF) graphs. A database access plugin has been developed and installed in a BIM tool. In that way, the LBD generated from the BIM tool contains, for each product a reference to its environmental assessment which is contained in a triplestore

Etat de l'art : Extraction d'information à partir de thésaurus pour générer une ontologie

International audienceAfin de participer au Web de données pour l'agriculture, nous voulons réutiliser AGRO-VOC qui est un thésaurus multilingue maintenu par la FAO comportant plus de 40.000 termes. Nous présentons ici un état de l'art des techniques de transformation de thésaurus pour obtenir une ontologie de domaine. Pour cela, nous avons étudié dix approches suivant trois axes : l'extraction de classes, l'extraction de la hiérarchie et l'extraction de relations. Ainsi, nous avons mis en évidence certaines difficultés liées à la transformation de thésaurus comme la désambiguïsation des relations ou la validation des résultats. Nous constatons que les dernières approches mises en oeuvre sont fondées sur des techniques manuelles pour répondre en partie à ces difficultés

L'assemblage de systèmes d'informations économique et logistique pour supporter la négociation dans la filière canne - Une expérience sémantique

14 p.To address the supply and the payment jointly in different socio-economic contexts, the sugarcane industry wants to gather two existing information systems. MAGI ® and MODECO being from different disciplinary background, they experience a different way the functioning of the sugar industry. The question that arises is that of the impact of this difference on merging databases. The purpose of this paper is to relate the experience of building the software platform PEMPA® and in particular deal with database merging using the ontology's alignment

Alignement d'ontologies : exploitation des ontologies liées sur le web de données

International audienceNous proposons dans cet article une méthode d’alignement d’une ontologie source avec des ontologies cibles déjà publiées et liées sur le web de données. Nous présentons ensuite un retour d’expérience sur l’alignement d’une ontologie dans le domaine des sciences du vivant et de l’environnement avec AGROVOC et NALT

Europeana communication bug: which intervention strategy for a better cooperation with creative industry?

Although Europeana as well as many GLAMs are very engaged - beside the main mission, i.e. spreading cultural heritage knowledge- in developing new strategies in order to make digital contents reusable for creative industry, these efforts have been successful just only in sporadic cases. A significant know how deficits in communication often compromises expected outcomes and impact. Indeed, what prevails is an idea of communication like an enhancement “instrument” intended on the one hand in purely economic (development) sense, on the other hand as a way for increasing and spreading knowledge. The main reference model is more or less as follows: digital objects are to be captured and/or transformed by digital technologies into sellable goods to put into circulation. Nevertheless, this approach risks neglecting the real nature of communication, and more in detail the one of digital heritage where it is strategic not so much producing objects and goods as taking part into sharing environments creation (media) by engaged communities, small or large they may be. The environments act as meeting and interchange point, and consequently as driving force of enhancing. Only in a complex context of network interaction on line accessible digital heritage contents become a strategic resource for creating environments in which their re/mediation can occur – provided that credible strategies exist, shared by stakeholders and users. This paper particularly describes a case study including proposals for an effective connection among Europeana, GLAMs and Creative Industry in the framework of Food and Drink digital heritage enhancement and promotion. Experimental experiences as the one described in this paper anyway confirm the relevance of up-to-date policies based on an adequate communication concept, on solid partnerships with enterprise and association networks, on collaborative on line environments, on effective availability at least for most of contents by increasing free licensing, and finally on grassroots content implementation involving prosumers audience, even if filtered by GLAMs

Vers une ontologie des processus de propagation des maladies infectieuses

International audiencePlusieurs ontologies sont construites au sein du projet Infectious Disease Ontology (IDO) pour fournir un vocabulaire commun du domaine et une représentation formelle des connaissances permettant de garantir leur partage, l'interopérabilité entre applications et le raisonnement. Dans ce papier, l'ontologie que nous proposons présente la modélisation des connaissances sur la propagation des maladies infectieuses. Le modèle prend en compte la structure multidimensionnelle et la nature complexe de la dynamique de propagation des maladies infectieuses. Nous étudions la propagation à l'échelle de la population tout en montrant ses interdépendances avec les processus sous-jacents aux échelles individuelle et biologique. Le choix de catégorisation des entités du domaine en tant que continuant ou occurrent est étudié. Une extension du modèle à la propagation de la bilharziose au Sénégal est également présentée

Discovering Scholarly Orphans Using ORCID

Archival efforts such as (C)LOCKSS and Portico are in place to ensure the longevity of traditional scholarly resources like journal articles. At the same time, researchers are depositing a broad variety of other scholarly artifacts into emerging online portals that are designed to support web-based scholarship. These web-native scholarly objects are largely neglected by current archival practices and hence they become scholarly orphans. We therefore argue for a novel paradigm that is tailored towards archiving these scholarly orphans. We are investigating the feasibility of using Open Researcher and Contributor ID (ORCID) as a supporting infrastructure for the process of discovery of web identities and scholarly orphans for active researchers. We analyze ORCID in terms of coverage of researchers, subjects, and location and assess the richness of its profiles in terms of web identities and scholarly artifacts. We find that ORCID currently lacks in all considered aspects and hence can only be considered in conjunction with other discovery sources. However, ORCID is growing fast so there is potential that it could achieve a satisfactory level of coverage and richness in the near future.Comment: 10 pages, 5 figures, 5 tables accepted for publication at JCDL 201

Rôle d'une base de connaissance dans SemIoTics, un système autonome contrôlant un appartement connecté

National audienceL'Internet des Objets représente une réalité de plus en plus concrète au fur et à mesure que se déploient de larges réseaux d'objets connectés. Ceux-ci ouvrent de larges perspectives d'applications, mais rencontrent des difficultés en terme d'interopérabilité, de configuration ou de passage à l'échelle. Ces probléma-tiques peuvent être traitées par le recours aux principes du web de données liées, d'où l'émergence d'ontologies dédiées aux applications de l'IoT, comme IoT-O, une ontologie pour l'IoT.Par ailleurs, une description en-richie des systèmes permet d'envisager leur configuration autonome : on parle alors d'autonomic computing. Ce papier présente SemIoTics, un système autonome reposant sur des bases de connaissance pour la gestion d'un appartement connecté. Nous présentons tout d'abord une vision générique d'une architecture de réseaux d'objets connectés qui permet de guider une analyse des travaux à l'interface du web sémantique et de l'IoT. Nous décrivons ensuite les deux bases de connaissances spécialisant IoT-O sur lesquelles s'appuie SemIoTics, et leur relation avec le dispositif expérimental. Enfin, la structure de ce système autonome de domotique est présenté en détails, et mis en relation avec l'architecture identifiée dans l'état de l'art

Ontologías para la terminología : por qué, cuándo, cómo

Aquest article tracta sobre la utilitat que pot tenir per a un terminòleg la integració d'una ontologia en la seva feina, els criteris que cal considerar en el cas de plantejar-se fer-ho, les pautes que cal seguir i les eines que té a la seva disposició. Ofereix una visió actualitzada de l'àmbit d'aplicació de les ontologies, des de la perspectiva del Web Semàntic.Este artículo discute la utilidad que puede tener para el terminólogo la integración de una ontología en su trabajo, los criterios a considerar en el caso de plantearse hacerlo, las pautas a seguir y las herramientas a su disposición. Se ofrece una visión actualizada del ámbito de aplicación de las ontologías, desde la perspectiva de la Web Semántica.This article discusses the usefulness of integrating an ontology in one's work when dealing with terminology, the criteria to take into consideration if this is a consideration, the guidelines to follow and the tools available. This article offers an updated review of the application of ontologies from the perspective of Web Semántica

MULTIPASS: gestion des consentements pour accéder aux données des exploitations dans une chaîne de confiance afin de favoriser l'émergence de nouveaux services pour les agriculteurs

12th EFITA International Conference, Rhode island, GRC, 27-/06/2019 - 29/06/2019International audienceWith the emergence of digital technologies, farms become a relevant source of data to meet the challenges of multi-performance agriculture. Beyond the services provided, access to farmers' data depends on a clear understanding of their use, which must be done in a transparent way. Several codes of conduct at a national or international level push for a voluntary commitment to respect some good practices in the use of agricultural data. To provide a tool and answer farmer's questions on the control of their data and the transparency of the data processing, the partners of the MULTIPASS project, have imagined an interoperable ecosystem of farmer consents management, protecting farmers from no consented uses of their data.Farmers' expectations of such an ecosystem have been expressed during workshops. They want to better identify existing data flows, including actors, data processes, and data clusters. Based on the farmers' expectations, the MULTIPASS project stakeholders have proposed the architecture of an ecosystem integrating two consent management tools as "pilots". This ecosystem should take in charge the interoperability between each consent management tools or with future tools. This solution is based on a shared typology of data and data processes as well as on the specifications of the consent message content. All these elements should be easily accessible to meet the interoperability need of the ecosystem. It is also based on a router, which provides unified access to consent management tools (using API). In particular, it provides the farmer (beneficiary) with an exhaustive view of his/her consents (which can be distributed on several consent management systems), meeting farmers' expectations for transparency. It is also the point where a data provider can check whether the consent required to provide data exists, without needing to know which consent management system is concerned. In this project, the stakeholders want to demonstrate to agricultural professional organizations the benefits and feasibility of a consent management ecosystem. By strengthening the confidence of farmers to share data, the project will allow the emergence of new knowledge and new services