Areas of Interest - Semantic description of component locations for damage assessment
Al-Hakam Hamdan, Raimar J. Scherer
Abstract
In the recent years, approaches that utilize Semantic Web Technologies for describing building information enabled the development of semantic representations of constructions and with it the separation of semantic and geometry-based models. Currently developed web ontologies provide functionality for defining a detailed topology, in which direct connections between various components are semantically described. However, a great proportion of tasks that require at least approximate information about the localization of objects in relation to connected components cannot be processed. This is especially a problem in the field of damage inspections, in which this information is mandatory for subsequent damage classification and assessment. To solve this problem, a newly developed ontological approach is presented in this paper, which aims for the semantic description of component areas, called Areas of Interest (AOI). Thereby, a new auxiliary ontology has been conceptualized, which aims for an uncomplicated integration in existing AEC-related ontologies. The paper presents the overall methodology of AOI as well as the corresponding conceptual ontology and the exemplary application for damage assessment utilizing the Damage Topology Ontology (DOT).