DISO-OAEI 2026

Ontologies

The ten DISO-curated ontologies used across both tasks, with individual downloads and preferred citations.

Click here to download the DISO ontologies for use within the ontology matching tasks.

Description

The DISO ontologies used within the context of DISO-OAEI are packaged as a single zipped archive at this download location. These ontologies are described, in brief, and individually provided below. Licensing information is provided, per ontology, at https://github.com/city-artificial-intelligence/diso/blob/main/ONTOLOGY-LICENSING.md.

  • brick.owl: Brick is an open-source effort to standardize semantic descriptions of the physical, logical and virtual assets in buildings and the relationships between them.

    • Download: brick.owl
    • Cite as: Balaji, B., Bhattacharya, A., Fierro, G., Gao, J., Gluck, J., Hong, D., Johansen, A., Koh, J., Ploennigs, J., Agarwal, Y., Bergés, M., Culler, D., Gupta, R. K., Kjærgaard, M. B., Srivastava, M., and Whitehouse, K. (2018). Brick: Metadata schema for portable smart building applications. Applied Energy, 226, 1273–1292. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2018.02.091

  • city.owl: CityOWL is an OWL rendering of CityGML (UML+XML schema).

    • Download: city.owl
    • Cite as: Vinasco-Alvarez, D., Samuel, J., Servigne, S., and Gesquiere, G. (2024). Towards an Automated Transformation of an nD Urban Data Model to a Computational Ontology Network: From UML to OWL, From CityGML 3.0 to CityOWL. ISPRS Annals of Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences, X-4/W4-2024, pp. 231-238. https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-annals-X-4-W4-2024-231-2024

  • d3fend.owl: a cyber-security ontology focusing on counter-measures.

    • Download: d3fend.owl
    • Cite as: Kaloroumakis, P. E. and Smith, M. J. (2021). Toward a Knowledge Graph of Cybersecurity Countermeasures. Technical Report Case 20-2034. The MITRE Corporation, Annapolis Junction, MD. Approved for Public Release; Distribution Unlimited. Available: https://d3fend.mitre.org/resources/D3FEND.pdf

  • facility.owl: designed to represent buildings and campuses that serve some specific purpose and which are common to multiple domains.

    • Download: facility.owl
    • Cite as: Jensen, M., Cox, A. P., Beverley, J., Smith, B., & Otte, J. N. (2024). The Common Core Ontologies (Version 2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.17758

  • jc3iedm.owl: Joint Consultation, Command and Control Information Exchange Data Model.

    • Download: jc3iedm.owl
    • Cite as: Matheus, C.J. & Ulicny, B. (2007). On the Automatic Generation of an OWL Ontology based on the Joint C3 Information Exchange Data Model. In Proceedings of the 12th International Command and Control Research and Technology Symposium (ICCRTS), Newport, RI, USA.

  • mio.owl: A Context Ontology for Mobile Environments.

    • Download: mio.owl
    • Cite as: Poveda-Villalón, M., Suárez-Figueroa, M. C., García-Castro, R., and Gómez-Pérez, A. (2010). A Context Ontology for Mobile Environments. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Context, Information and Ontologies (CIAO 2010), co-located with EKAW 2010, Lisbon, Portugal. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 626. ISSN 1613-0073. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-626/regular3.pdf

  • smartenv.owl: Smart Home Environments.

    • Download: smartenv.owl
    • Cite as: Alirezaie, M., Hammar, K., Blomqvist, E., Nyström, M., and Ivanova, V. (2018). SmartEnv Ontology in E-care@home. In SSN 2018 — 9th Int. Semantic Sensor Networks Workshop (ISWC 2018), vol. 2213, pp. 72–79.

  • stix.owl: Structured Threat Information eXpression.

    • Download: stix.owl
    • Cite as: OASIS Cyber Threat Intelligence Technical Committee. STIX Version 2.1. Edited by Bret Jordan, Rich Piazza, and Trey Darley. OASIS Standard. 10 June 2021. https://docs.oasis-open.org/cti/stix/v2.1/os/stix-v2.1-os.html.

  • thinkhome.owl: Smart Home Ontology for Human Activity Recognition.

    • Download: thinkhome.owl
    • Cite as: Christian Reinisch, Mario J. Kofler, Félix Iglesias, Wolfgang Kastner. "ThinkHome Energy Efficiency in Future Smart Homes." EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems, vol. 2011, Article ID 104617, 18 pp., 2011. DOI: 10.1155/2011/104617.

  • uco.owl: Unified Cyber Ontology; an open community effort focused on cyber-security.

    • Download: uco.owl
    • Cite as: Casey, E., Barnum, S., Griffith, R., Snyder, J., van Beek, H., and Nelson, A. (2018). The Evolution of Expressing and Exchanging Cyber-investigation Information in a Standardized Form. In: Biasiotti et al. (eds), Handling and Exchanging Electronic Evidence Across Europe. Springer.