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Revisiting Ontologies of Units of Measure for Harmonising Quantity Values – A Use Case

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The Semantic Web – ISWC 2020 (ISWC 2020)

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Abstract

Processing quantity values in industry applications is often arduous and costly due to different systems of units and countless naming and formatting conventions. As semantic technology promises to alleviate the situation, we consider using existing ontologies of units of measure to improve data processing capabilities of a cloud-based semantic platform for operating digital twins of real industry assets. We analyse two well-known ontologies: OM, the Ontology of units of Measure, and QUDT, the Quantities, Units, Dimensions and Types ontology. These ontologies are excellent resources, but do not meet all our requirements. We discuss suitable modelling choices for representing quantities, dimensions and units of measure and we outline the process we followed to adapt relevant definitions from OM and QUDT into a new ontology of units of measure that better meets our needs. Compared with the alternative of manually creating the ontology from scratch, the development and maintenance costs and duration were reduced significantly. We believe this approach will achieve similar benefits in other ontology engineering efforts.

This work has been supported by Aker Solutions, DNV GL, Sesam and SIRIUS labs. A special thanks to Kaia Means (DNV GL) for reviewing this document.

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    https://www.akersolutions.com/.

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    https://www.dnvgl.com/.

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    https://sesam.io/.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_twin.

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    https://www.ix3.com/.

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    https://www.iso.org/standard/75949.html.

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    https://www.w3.org/TR/skos-reference/.

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    https://github.com/pav-ontology/pav/.

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    https://github.com/HajoRijgersberg/OM.

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    https://github.com/qudt/qudt-public-repo/releases.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimensional_analysis.

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    https://www.iso.org/committee/46202/x/catalogue/.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Quantities.

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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_System_of_Units.

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    https://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-overview/.

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    http://www.linkedmodel.org/doc/2015/SCHEMA_dtype-v1.2.

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    http://www.linkedmodel.org/doc/2015/SCHEMA_vaem-v2.0.

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    https://www.w3.org/TR/vocab-ssn/.

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    https://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-primer/#OWL_2_DL_and_OWL_2_Full.

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  1. DNV GL, Oslo, Norway

    Francisco Martín-Recuerda, Dirk Walther & Siegfried Eisinger

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  3. ix3 – an Aker Solutions Company, Fornebu, Norway

    Petter Andersen, Per-Olav Opdahl & Lillian Hella

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Martín-Recuerda, F. et al. (2020). Revisiting Ontologies of Units of Measure for Harmonising Quantity Values – A Use Case. In: Pan, J.Z., et al. The Semantic Web – ISWC 2020. ISWC 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12507. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62466-8_34

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