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Improving the Interoperability of Mechanical Design Data using XML and Ontology  

Chong Tae-Hyong (한양대학교 기계공학과)
Park Seung-Hyun (한양대학교 대학원 기계설계학과)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Machine Tool Engineers / v.15, no.4, 2006 , pp. 29-38 More about this Journal
Abstract
As the complexity of engineering design environment has been increased, it becomes difficult to exchange design data among design support systems. The purpose of this paper is to develop the XML-based Generalized Mechanical Data Exchange Formats(GMDEF) independent of specific mechanical element and to improve the interoperability of them using ontology, in order to integrate diverse design data and facilitate communication between design support systems. GMDEF consists of PartDoc and AssemblyDoc. PartDoc represents the information of a single part. AssemblyDoc represents the relation of parts composing an assembly. GMDEF is validated by GMDEF Schema. GMDEF Schema consists of separated XML Schemas and has flexible architecture to facilitate extension. The ontology is applied to GMDEF Schema to share and reuse vocabularies of specific mechanical elements.
Keywords
Design Methodology; XML(eXtensible Markup Language); RDF(Resource Description Framework); Ontology;
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