This ontology extends the SAREF ontology for the building domain by defining building devices and how they are located in a building. This extension is based on the ISO 16739:2013 Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) standard for data sharing in the construction and facility management industries. The descriptions of the classes and properties extracted from IFC have been taken from the IFC documentation.

Prefix
saref.building
Alternative Prefixes
s4bldg
Keywords
digital planning and construction engineering fid baudigital iot nfdi4ing
Links
Homepage
Contact
Missing Contact
Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers
Missing LUI pattern
Example Local Unique Identifier
Actuator   Resolve
Example CURIE
saref.building:Actuator
Ontology

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection
NFDI4Ing Ontologies
Metaregistry SAREF extension for building devices

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 2 mappings to external registries for this resource with 1 unique external prefixes.

Registry Name Registry Metaprefix External Prefix Curate
LOV Linked Open Vocabularies logo lov s4bldg
TIB-TS TIB Terminology Service logo tib s4bldg
Providers

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier Actuator is used to demonstrate the providers available for SAREF extension for building devices. Some providers may use a different example, which is displayed in the table below. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.

Name Metaprefix URI
SAREF extension for building devices saref.building https://saref.etsi.org/saref4bldg/Actuator
Bioregistry bioregistry https://bioregistry.io/saref.building:Actuator