The heterogeneity of energy ontologies hinders the interoperability between ontology-based energy management applications to perform a large-scale energy management. Thus, there is the need for a global ontology that provides common vocabularies to represent the energy subdomains. A global energy ontology must provide a balance of reusability–usability to moderate the effort required to reuse it in different applications. This paper presents DABGEO: a reusable and usable global ontology for the energy domain that provides a common representation of energy domains represented by existing energy ontologies. DABGEO can be reused by ontology engineers to develop ontologies for specific energy management applications. In contrast to previous global energy ontologies, it follows a layered structure to provide a balance of reusability–usability. In this work, we provide an overview of the structure of DABGEO and we explain how to reuse it in a particular application case. In addition, the paper includes an evaluation of DABGEO to demonstrate that it provides a balance of reusability–usability.

能源本体的异质性阻碍了基于本体的能源管理应用程序之间执行大规模能源管理的互操作性。因此，需要提供通用词汇表来表示能量子域的全局本体。全球能源本体必须提供可重用性-可用性之间的平衡，以缓和在不同应用中重用它所需的工作量。本文介绍了DABGEO：一种用于能源领域的可重用和可用的全局本体，它提供了由现有能源本体表示的能源域的通用表示形式。本体工程师可以重复使用DABGEO来为特定的能源管理应用开发本体。与以前的全球能源本体论相反，它采用分层结构以提供可重用性-可使用性之间的平衡。在这项工作中，我们概述了DABGEO的结构，并说明了如何在特定的应用案例中重用它。此外，本文还对DABGEO进行了评估，以证明它在可重用性与可使用性之间取得了平衡。