An Ontology in Civil Engineering to Modelling the Experimental Knowledge

A key aspect of Civil Engineering is experimental knowledge as protocols. These Protocols are developed in laboratories to establish the characteristics of different materials; however, its documentation is limited to natural language descriptions. This paper is one of the first investigations that propose a way to model the experimental protocols in Civil Engineering as semantic representations. In this way, it can be interpreted not only by humans but also by software agents. In order to achieve this goal, this work develops its own ontology domain, in conjunction with other existing ontologies to offer an unambiguous representation, which allows reusing the experimental knowledge.