List of Toronto ontology contributions (as of November 1, 2022
University of Toronto Transportation Research Centre - iCity Ontology
- An ontology for the representation and exchange of data amongst modules used in Transportation Planning
City of Toronto - Digital City Group - Toronto Common Data Model Project
- Goal is to create a common data model for the communication of city data amongst divisions/departments and with external stakeholders.
- Divisions involved include hard and software services plus financial services. The model is based on the ISO/IEC 5087 City Data Model standards series we lead.
City of Toronto - Toronto Water - Asset Management Ontology Project
- Developing an ontology for: 1) modelling water and sanitation physical assets; and 2) Physical asset documentation management.
City of Toronto - Physical Infrastructure Division - Coordinating Large Scale Infrastructure projects
- Applying coordination theory, ontologies and constraints to address coordination problems that lead to massive delays in infrastructure projects.
Common Approach - Impact Modelling - Common Impact Data Standards Common Approach is a consortium of over 100 Social Purposes Organizations, Social sector software vendors, and government funding agencies.
- Goal is to create a data standard for representing Impact Models and reporting on their performance, i.e., Outcomes and Indicators.
- Other organizations include: Salesforce, Microsoft, Carleton U, ….
Digital Supercluster - Helpseeker Inc - Compass Project
- This project has multiples tasks that we are responsible for:
- 1) Compass Social Services Sector Ontology;
- 2)Social Needs Marketplace for matching supply to demand;
- 3) NLP for extracting Impact Models from unstructured text.
- Other organizations participating include: Microsoft; Accenture, Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corp., Cities of Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Grande Prairie, Vancouver, Barrie, Edmonton, ….
ISO/IEC JTC 1 WG11 Smart Cities - ISO/IEC 5087 series of city data standards
Qilu University, Jinan China - Projects: Public Health Emergency Ontology; Housing Ontology
Future Cities Lab - Multi-city 5087 demonstration project
- Future cities lab has nodes in Zurich, Singapore, Berlin, Cambridge. Goal is to apply 5087 to the modelling of each of these cities to answer a common set of Competency Questions
Urban Genome Project
- Developing an evolutionary model of cities. In conjunction with Hebrew University applying to Bedouin and Arab villages in Israel.
Canadian Census Ontology
- In cooperations with Statistics Canada
Tata Consultancy Services - Urban Data Repository Project
Tata Consultancy Services - Urban Data Catalogue Project
- In conjunction with CIO Strategy Council.
- Goal is to create an ontology-based standard for urban datasets meta-data
Ministry of Families, Children and Social Development Canada - Pathfinder Project
- Repository for Impact Models and reporting outcomes and indicators. In conjunction with the Common Approach project led by Carleton U.
Our research primarily focuses on the development of domain ontologies for cities, and on coordination theory and constraint-based reasoning for solving city problems.