News on the Open Energy Platform OEP
Ludwig Huelk
Dear openmod,
high quality data is important for modelling and analysing climate and energy scenarios. If such data are accessible and openly licensed, research can become more efficient, transparent and easier to reproduce. The Open Energy Platform (OEP) - funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Energy - makes such information openly available, following the principles of Open Science. Since March 20, 2020 the OEP comes with a new design which allows an even easier access to its open energy data and tools. The OEP is a community effort. It's developed openly and thrives on contributions from the community. Together we want to manage and provide energy data efficiently and reproducibly.
The OEP contains data and associated metadata - for example on emissions, energy consumption and power transmission capacities. In addition to the OEP, a large number of open tools are being developed. These tools are members of the Open Energy Family. "Family members" include, for example, the Open Energy Database (OEDB), the Open Energy Ontology (OEO), the API (OEDIALECT), metadata with Open Metadata Integration (OMI), factsheets and tutorials. We are continuously and openly developing new tools and refining existing ones. Currently our focus lies on the development of the OEO.
An ontology is a formal collection of terms, that includes clear definitions of and the relationships between those terms. It provides a basis for identifying, discussing and harmonizing the use of technical terms and their logical interpretation. The Open Energy Platform addresses the domain of energy system modelling. The Open Energy Ontology (OEO) is tailored to this domain and is developed so that it works across disciplines. In the medium term, we will link data sets and its metadata to the OEO. This will enable unambiguous annotation and automated search. The OEO Steering Committee (OEO-SC) has been appointed to accompany the development of the ontology, to increase awareness and to integrate existing and planned work: A continuous exchange between the ontology developers and the OEO-SC takes place openly on GitHub and via regular web conferences.
GitHub of the ontology: https://github.com/OpenEnergyPlatform/ontology
Fraunhofer IEE, Öko-Institut, Reiner Lemoine Institute and the University of Magdeburg are jointly and openly developing the Open Energy Platform within the project SzenarienDB - with a focus on scenario data. The development takes place on GitHub. Anyone interested can participate in the OEP via GitHub or contribute to its further development by giving us direct feedback.
Your OEP-Team
Mark Howells
Sent: 01 April 2020 13:26
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