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http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/description
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The Building Product Ontology defines concepts to describe (building) products in a schematic way. It provides methods to describe assembly structures and attach properties to any component without restricting their types, as is often the case in template-driven product descriptions. To allow the description of complex properties, it also contains terms for unordered, two-dimensional lists.
The BPO's bpo is on the schematic description of product only, not including geometry or material compositions. Therefore, it can be used to describe theoretical product components without geometric representations as well as those with geometric representations without restrictions. For classification purposes, it uses the buildingSMART Data Dictionary (bSDD) by referencing to the terms' bSDD GUID. If geometric descriptions are desired for components, the authors suggest to use the Ontology for Managing Geometry (OMG, https://w3id.org/omg) resp. the File Ontology for Geometry formats (FOG, https://w3id.org/omg).
The BPO is based on the SolConPro ontology, which was first presented in:
Wagner, A., Moeller, L.K., Leifgen, C., Rueppel, U., (2018). SolConPro: Describing multi-functional building products using semantic web technologies. In: European Conference on Product and Process Modelling, 12-14 September 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark. In: 12 . CRC Press
This work is part of the research project Semantic Construction Project Engineering (www.projekt-bpo.de), founded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (BMWi).
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