What does the resource contain?
The Open Energy Ontology (OEO) is collaboratively developed to provide a standardized terminology for energy system modeling applications. Relevant terms are collected and catalogued with clear definitions and relationships to other ontology terms. The OEO is built on the Basic Formal Ontology (BFO), and reuses existing terms from other ontologies where appropriate, all to improve interoperability between it and other ontologies and use cases.
Four main modules make up the OEO:
- oeo-model: contains entities related to models and modeling (including entities regarding simulation scenarios)
- oeo-physical: contains entities related to energy generation and the physical structures of energy systems
- oeo-social: contains entities related to the social and economic factors that impact energy systems
- oeo-shared: contains entities which are needed in all of the other modules, to avoid duplicated entity implementation
How can the resource be applied?
- Disambiguate terms by using the definitions in this controlled vocabulary.
- Annotate data with standardized terms, improving interoperability with similarly-annotated data sets.
- Improve search functionalities to aid in data discovery and analysis.
Credits
This resource was developed by:
- Booshehri, Meisam, et al. “Introducing the Open Energy Ontology: Enhancing data interpretation and interfacing in energy systems analysis.” Energy and AI 5 (2021): 100074. 10.1016/j.egyai.2021.100074
- All contributors to the OEO are listed in https://github.com/OpenEnergyPlatform/ontology/blob/dev/CITATION.cff