A Semantic Approach to Identifier Management in Engineering Systems

Mapping identifiers across the systems is an essential part of the work towards automatic system integration. It will help us move from the traditional processes that are often manual, error-prone, and time and resource-consuming. In this paper, we propose a solution that will allow us to approach the problem from a data mesh perspective, where organisations and domains serve and host their own data for consumption, combined with ontology-based data access to move towards machine-readable data, more automatic data integration, and further digitalisation in engineering systems. This is an important step as structured and enhanced system-to-system data interchange has enormous efficiency gains and consequential savings in the oil and gas industry, as well as in other sectors of engineering with similar challenges.