Building of industrial parts LOD for EDI - a case study

Abstract

A wide variety of mechanical parts are used as products in the area of manufacturing. The code systems of product information are necessary for realizing Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) of business-to-business. However, each code systems are designed and maintained by different industry associations. Thus, we built an industrial parts Linked Open Data (LOD), which we called “N-ken LOD” based on a screw product code system (N-ken Code) maintained by Osaka fasteners cooperative association (Daibyokyo). In this paper, we first describe building of N-ken LOD, then how we linked it to external datasets like DBpedia, and built product supplier relations in order to support the EDI.