Towards a Railway Topology Ontology to Integrate and Query Rail Data Silos
Published in: Posters and Demos Track of ISWC
2020
Abstract
Engineering projects in the railway domain typically involve a large number of subsystems. Therefore a common understanding of the domain is essential. In the past this has been provided by XML-based data exchange standards and UML-based object-oriented models. With the increasing adoption of semantic technologies for engineering projects the demand to provide these standard data models in the form of ontologies has grown. We describe requirements and challenges to define an open standard ontology for railway topologies based on existing standards. The purpose of the finished ontology will be to enable topological queries and reasoning for railway networks in a standardized and reusable manner.