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Tradition

Industry and engineering

Manufacturing, energy and the Internet of Things: product models shared across factories, the electricity grid's common model, and vocabularies for sensors and devices.

also
Manufacturing, Energy, Internet of Things, Industry 4.0
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Where it answered

This tradition's column of the issues map: which questions its works mainly answer, and the earliest of each.

issueworksearliest
Technical 2 works · 33%
Identification
Linking
Data model 2 STEP 1994
Serialization
Reasoning
Query & validation
Scale & performance
Bridge 4 works · 67%
Vocabulary 4 SAREF 2015
Human 0 works · 0%
Topology
Trust
Governance
Adoption & incentives
Sustainability
Usability

Shares works with Web standards (3) · Databases (1) · Geospatial (1) · Knowledge representation (1)

Counts use each work's main design issue, as on the full map; 6 works in all.

Timeline

Everything from this tradition, in lanes by type. Bars run from start to end where both are known; marks people, projects and organizations still active. 12 entries have no date and are not shown. Hover over or focus an entry to draw its links. Scroll sideways, or use the decades above.

Entries (18)

Standards 6

  • STEP 1994 standard

    ISO's family of standards for describing manufactured products so CAD, manufacturing and archive systems can exchange them, begun in 1984 and first published in 1994–95; its EXPRESS schema language is an early example of a formal shared data model across an industry.

  • ISO 15926 2003 standard

    ISO standard for integrating the life-cycle data of process plants, including oil and gas facilities, with a generic data model (Part 2, 2003) and reference data libraries; Part 8 implements it in OWL and RDF.

  • SAREF 2015 standard

    Small OWL ontology for smart appliances and the Internet of Things, begun in 2014–15 in a study for the European Commission and continued by ETSI, with extensions for energy, buildings, agriculture and other sectors.

  • Semantic Sensor Network Ontology 2017 standard

    Joint W3C and OGC ontology, a Recommendation of 19 October 2017, for describing sensors, actuators, observations and samples, with the lightweight SOSA core for simple use; a 2023 edition has been in draft since September 2025.

  • Web of Things Thing Description 2020 standard

    W3C Recommendation of 9 April 2020 that describes a device's properties, actions and events in JSON that can be read as JSON-LD, so applications can work across Internet of Things platforms.

  • Common Information Model (electricity) standard

    The electricity industry's shared model of power networks, adopted by the IEC, so grid operators' software can exchange data about lines, equipment and measurements; its profiles are exchanged as RDF, including between Europe's transmission operators.

Organizations 1

  • ENTSO-E 2008 organization

    Association of Europe's electricity transmission system operators, founded in 2008–2009, and a major contributor to the European profiles of the electricity grid's Common Information Model.

People 11

  • Armin Haller person

    Australian National University computer scientist and editor of the W3C/OGC Semantic Sensor Network Ontology (2017).

  • Danh Le Phuoc person

    Technical University of Berlin researcher and editor of the Semantic Sensor Network Ontology (2017).

  • Kerry Taylor person

    Australian National University data scientist and editor of the Semantic Sensor Network Ontology (2017).

  • Krzysztof Janowicz person

    Geographic information scientist, then at the University of California, Santa Barbara, who edited the Semantic Sensor Network Ontology (2017) and GeoSPARQL 1.1 (2024).

  • Matthias Kovatsch person

    Huawei engineer and editor of the W3C Web of Things Thing Description (2020).

  • Maxime Lefrançois person

    Researcher at the École des Mines de Saint-Étienne and editor of the Semantic Sensor Network Ontology (2017).

  • Michael McCool person

    Intel engineer and editor of the W3C Web of Things Thing Description (2020).

  • Sebastian Kaebisch person

    Siemens engineer and editor of the W3C Web of Things Thing Description (2020).

  • Simon Cox person

    CSIRO scientist who edited the Semantic Sensor Network Ontology (2017) and GeoSPARQL 1.1 (2024).

  • Takuki Kamiya person

    Fujitsu Laboratories of America engineer and editor of the W3C Web of Things Thing Description (2020).

  • Victor Charpenay person

    Siemens researcher and editor of the W3C Web of Things Thing Description (2020).