[BLDG-SIM] EnerXML - A Schema for Energy Simulation Data Exchange

[Rob Hitchcock]

I agree that library/catalog performance specs for building
components like equipment and materials makes a lot of sense.
This would support e-commerce applications, and the ability to
search the web for component data that could be directly imported
into energy simulation models.

I feel that this work should be coordinated with the aecXML effort
underway within the International Alliance for Interoperability
(IAI).  See http://www.aecxml.org/index2.htm for more
information.  We are on the verge of achieving some level of
software interoperability with the IFC data model being developed
by the IAI.  It would be a shame to develop an XML schema that did
not build on this work.

Rob Hitchcock
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
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Jason Glazer wrote:

> Along with weather, three other areas related to building
> simulation that make sense to have an XML format for are:
>
> a) Equipment performance specifications - nominal and part
> load and temperature correction curves,
>
> b) Utility rate models - block charges, time of use rates,
> and applicablity, and
>
> c) Materials/constructions descriptions for opaque and
> transparent building surfaces.
>
> These could be integrated into an overall "enerXML" but
> since they could also benefit other types of software they
> may be best being independent schemas.
>
> Jason
>
> On 26 Apr 2000, at 14:32, Larry Degelman wrote:
>
> > Has any XML format been established yet for weather data
> > used for energy simulation software?  We've got several
> > weather data formats out there, and it would be convenient
> > if these formats were made neutral by embedding the
> > self-describing variables and data formats right in the
> > file.  This seems like it would be the easiest to accomplish
> > and the most readily used database.
> >
> > If not much has been done on this, I would be glad to work
> > on it this summer.  What rules and guidelines are available
> > for developing XML schemas?
> >
> > Larry D
> >
> > ************************************************************
> > **************** * Larry O. Degelman, P.E., Professor
> > e-mail: larry at taz.tamu.edu Department of Architecture
> >           Phone: +1-979-845-1891 Texas A&M University
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> > http://taz.tamu.edu/~energy/enerwin.html
> > ************************************************************
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> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Gowri, Krishnan" <krishnan.gowri at pnl.gov>
> > To: <BLDG-SIM at gard.com>
> > Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 1:28 PM
> > Subject: [BLDG-SIM] EnerXML - A Schema for Energy Simulation
> > Data Exchange
> >
> >
> > >
> > > I would like to propose the development of an XML schema
> > > for marking up
> > Energy
> > > simulation data files that can be easily transferred
> > > between simulation
> > software
> > > and other applications.  For those unfamiliar with XML,
> > > data files in XML
> > are
> > > simply ASCII files containing tags that make the data
> > > self-describing, if
> > the
> > > schema definitions are standardized and understandable.
> > >
> > > If you are an energy software developer and interested in
> > > supporting or participating in the schema development
> > > effort, please let me know. At present, this is a
> > > voluntary effort aimed at interoperable and neutral
> > data
> > > representation for building energy software data.
> > >
> > > Krishnan Gowri, Ph.D., PE
> > > Pacific Northwest National Lab.
> > >
>
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