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Facilities and Industries Ontology
Release: 2024-03-06
- Modified on: 2025-12-09
- This version:
- http://w3id.org/fio/v1/fio#
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- http://w3id.org/fio/fio#
- Revision:
- 1
- Issued on:
- 2025-12-09
- Authors:
- http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5331-5052
- https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3271-6700
- Publisher:
- http://spatialai.org
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- http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5331-5052, https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3271-6700. Facilities and Industries Ontology. Revision: 1. Retrieved from: http://w3id.org/fio/v1/fio#
- Vocabulary maintained at:
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Ontology Specification Draft
Abstract
Facilities are specific locations where commercial or institutional activity occurs. Industry classification schemes divide economic activities into functional groups. These two key concepts are crucial for analyzing institutional and economic activity and its spatial distribution, which are critical for understanding environmental impact, labor dynamics, supply chains, and many other complex social and environmental phenomena. The Facilities and Industries Ontology (FIO) is a generic ontology design pattern for linking facilities to industry sectors as defined in classification systems. FIO supports semantic reasoning to, e.g., infer broader industry sectors that are associated with facilities and organizations.Introduction back to ToC
The core concepts of the Facilities and Industries Ontology Design Pattern (FIO) are Facility and Industry. A Facility is defined as a physical entity with a fixed geospatial location where commercial or institutional activity occurs or has occurred in the past. An Industry represents a particular economic subdivision characterized by its function and services. For example, grain farming and grain milling represent distinct industries within the farming and food manufacturing sectors, respectively. Facilities and industries are closely connected: each facility is associated with one or more industries, modeled in FIO using the ofIndustry property.Facilities and Industries Ontology: Overview back to ToC
This ontology has the following classes and properties.Classes
Object Properties
Data Properties
Facilities and Industries Ontology: Description back to ToC
Facilities are specific locations where commercial or institutional activity occurs. Industry classification schemes divide economic activities into functional groups. These two key concepts are crucial for analyzing institutional and economic activity and its spatial distribution, which are critical for understanding environmental impact, labor dynamics, supply chains, and many other complex social and environmental phenomena. The Facilities and Industries Ontology (FIO) is a generic ontology design pattern for linking facilities to industry sectors as defined in classification systems. FIO supports semantic reasoning to, e.g., infer broader industry sectors that are associated with facilities and organizations.Cross-reference for Facilities and Industries Ontology classes, object properties and data properties back to ToC
This section provides details for each class and property defined by Facilities and Industries Ontology.Classes
Facilityc back to ToC or Class ToC
IRI: http://w3id.org/fio/v1/fio#Facility
Any physical building, building complex or site (e.g. an airstrip, a mine, or superfund site) at which a commercial or institutional activity occurs.
- has super-classes
- is in range of
- has Facility op
Industryc back to ToC or Class ToC
IRI: http://w3id.org/fio/v1/fio#Industry
A distinct group of productive or profit-making enterprises.
- is in domain of
- of Year dp, same code op, subcode of op, year deprecated dp
- is in range of
- of industry op, same code op, subcode of op
Industry Collectionc back to ToC or Class ToC
IRI: http://w3id.org/fio/v1/fio#IndustryCollection
A collection of industries grouped by a common characteristic.
Organizationc back to ToC or Class ToC
IRI: http://w3id.org/fio/v1/fio#Organization
- has super-classes
- Agent c
- is in domain of
- has Facility op
Object Properties
has Facilityop back to ToC or Object Property ToC
IRI: http://w3id.org/fio/v1/fio#hasFacility
A relation between an organization and a facility it has ownership, management or other affiliation with.
- has super-properties
- has domain
- Organization c
- has range
- Facility c
has memberop back to ToC or Object Property ToC
IRI: http://w3id.org/fio/v1/fio#hasMember
A relation between a collection a member of the collection.
of industryop back to ToC or Object Property ToC
IRI: http://w3id.org/fio/v1/fio#ofIndustry
A relation between an entity and the industry it is classified under
- has range
- Industry c
- has sub-property chains
- of industry op o subcode of op
same codeop back to ToC or Object Property ToC
IRI: http://w3id.org/fio/v1/fio#sameCode
subcode ofop back to ToC or Object Property ToC
IRI: http://w3id.org/fio/v1/fio#subcodeOf
A hierarchical relation between an industry and its parent industry
Data Properties
of Yeardp back to ToC or Data Property ToC
IRI: http://w3id.org/fio/v1/fio#ofYear
A relation between an industry code and the schema year it belongs to.
year deprecateddp back to ToC or Data Property ToC
IRI: http://w3id.org/fio/v1/fio#yearDeprecated
A relation between an industry code and the schema year it was deprecated and removed as a industry code with the same meaning.
Legend back to ToC
c: Classes
op: Object Properties
dp: Data Properties
op: Object Properties
dp: Data Properties
Acknowledgments back to ToC
The authors would like to thank Silvio Peroni for developing LODE, a Live OWL Documentation Environment, which is used for representing the Cross Referencing Section of this document and Daniel Garijo for developing Widoco, the program used to create the template used in this documentation.