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Megan Katsumi
A Building is a structure with some location in the urban system. The location of the Building in space may change due to construction, but the Parcel/Lot of land it is located on cannot.
There may be many different types (subclasses) of buildings, such as House, Apartment Building, Office Building, and so on.
November 7, 2017
Building Ontology
icity-building
Developed as part of the overall iCity ontology effort, the iCity-Building ontology is designed to capture concepts related to buildings.
Changes from previous version:
-imported revised ontologies of activity (iCity-Activity) and change (iCity-Change).
Copyright
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Under development. Please see report on iCity Ontology v1.
Added for organizational purposes, to identify properties defined in the Building ontology.
Added for organizational purposes, to capture the properties reused from Schema.org. Notice that since we cannot import schema.org we must manually reference the individual IRIs.
A Building is located on some parcel of land.
Added for organizational purposes, to identify data properties defined in the Building ontology.
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Building: A Building is a structure with some location in the urban system. The location of the Building in space may change due to construction, but the Parcel/Lot of land it is located on cannot.
There are different types (subclasses) of buildings; House, Apartment Building, Office Building...
A Building has an owner, which may be a Persons or some Organization.
A Building has occupants, which may or may not be the same Persons or Firm who own it.
A Building has a market value.
A Building may provide some Parking.
A Building has some Location.
A Building has some height, some footprint area, and some floor area. The floor area is often greater than the footprint area as it accounts for the area of each floor of the building. However, floor area excludes unoccupied areas such as basements. These properties are considered variant as it is possible for a building to undergo construction to increase its dimensions.
A Building contains one or many units.
Added for organizational purposes, to identify classes defined in the Building ontology.
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A Building may change over time, BuildingPD represents the entire process of some building entity (i.e. the Building perdurant).
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BuildingUnit: A part of a Building which may be occupied by some Persons or Organization.
A BuildingUnit has a size (square footage, number of rooms)
A BuildingUnit may contain some Facilities, e.g. kitchen, bath.(Note that contain is distinct from the notion of including amenities, which may be part of the Tenure)
A BuildingUnit has an address
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A Building Unit may change over time, BuildingUnitPD represents the entire process of some building unit entity (i.e. the Building unit perdurant).
hasManifestation some BuildingUnit and hasManifestation only BuildingUnit
Added for organizational purposes, to capture the classes reused from Schema.org. Notice that since we cannot import schema.org we must manually reference the individual IRIs.