ISO-15926
The ISO-15926 standard is titled: “Industrial automation systems and integration—Integration of life-cycle data for process plants including oil and gas production facilities“. One of its main requirements was that the scope of the data model covers the entire lifecycle of a facility (e.g. oil refinery) and its components (e.g. pipes, pumps and their parts, etc.)
The data model that has evolved is an RDF/OWL ontology. Its development and evolution has set some important precedents that other engineering and construction projects such as the development of the Common Inspection and Test Plans can learn from. These include:
- The use of OWL to model concepts and the potential reuse of concepts already identified by ISO-15926 and modeled in OWL.
- The construction of OWL ontologies through community participation.
- Public sharing of web based ontologies in order to speed up the adoption of standardized concepts.
- The development of a Semantic Web Ontology browser.
- Provisioning for individual companies to provide their own customizations.
Wikipedia provides overviews of both ISO-15926 and ISO-15926 WIP (Work In Progress).
15926.ORG is a wiki based site providing a Knowledge Base dedicated to the practical implementation of, and information about ISO 15926. It includes an ISO 15926 General Introduction.
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How widely used is ISO 15926 in the process industry at this time? How rigorous is the current RDF model and is it likely to be updated?
Hi Tomas,
I don’t know the currrent state of ISO 15926 however ISO 15926 is a key part of the Use Case: Ontology-Driven Information Integration and Delivery, A Survey of Semantic Web Technology in the Oil and Gas Industry (http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/sweo/public/UseCases/Chevron/). The author of that, Frank Chum (Chevron) would be a good person to follow up with re its current status.
All the best,
Richard Hancock
Hi Richard,
Many thanks for your reply. I have some reading to do…!