An Open Knowledge Platform on Building Energy Performance to Mitigate Climate Change | Open Knowledge Foundation Blog

abernard102@gmail.com 2013-03-15

Summary:

"Buildings account for more than 30% of final energy use and energy-related carbon emissions in the world today. This sector has the potential to play a crucial role in mitigating the global challenge of climate change. However, the building industry is a local industry and the sector is fragmented at all levels, from planning to design and practical construction and over its various technical aspects. In this context, how best to help the sector deliver its global mitigation potential? Our answer at the Global Buildings Performance Network (GBPN) is collaboration: stimulating collective knowledge and analysis from experts and building professionals worldwide to advance best building performance policies and solutions that can support better decision-making. At the cornerstone of this strategy is our new Linked Open Data website launched on the 21st of February. This web-based tool is unique in that it has been designed as a global participatory open data knowledge hub: harvesting, curating and creating global best knowledge and data on building performance policies.  As the energy performance of buildings becomes central to any effective strategy to mitigate climate change, policymakers, investors and project developers, members of governmental institutions and multilateral organisations need better access to building performance data and knowledge to design, evaluate and compare policies and programmes from around the world.  The GBPN encourages transparent availability and access to reliable data. The GBPN data can be freely used, reused and redistributed by anyone (as provided under a Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY 3.0 FR license.) – subject to the requirement to attribute and share alike. In addition, the GBPN Knowledge Platform has been developed making use of Linked Open Data technology and principles to connect with the best online resources. The GBPN Glossary is linked to DBpedia as well as the reegle’s Clean Energy and Climate Change Thesaurus developed by the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership(REEEP) and (REN21). A 'News Aggregator Tool' service is also available. And our platform connects to our Regional Hubs data portals: Buildingsdata.eu, the open data portal for energy efficiency in European buildings developed by the Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE), and Buildingrating.org, the leading online tool for sharing global best practices on building rating and disclosure policies launched by the Institute for Market Transformation (IMT) in 2011.  One of the main features of the website is the 'Policy Comparative Tool' enabling comparison of the world’s best practice policies for new buildings. By understanding how countries have designed and implemented best practice codes, policy makers can use this information to strengthen the future design of dynamic policies. The tool provides interactive data visualization and analytics ..."

Link:

http://blog.okfn.org/2013/03/14/an-open-knowledge-platform-on-building-energy-performance-to-mitigate-climate-change/

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Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

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oa.new oa.data oa.policies oa.licensing oa.comment oa.lod oa.copyright oa.best_practices oa.cc oa.interoperability oa.standards oa.climate oa.environment oa.energy oa.gbpn oa.libre

Date tagged:

03/15/2013, 15:41

Date published:

03/15/2013, 11:42