On 25/05/2021 at 12:38, Simon Innovate UK said:

Hi Ian,

Have you linked up to the TIET working group on this?

Never heard of it… tell me more?

I’m trying to arrive at an agreed and useful Digital Twin Policy for Highways England.

Any feedback you fancy providing on this draft would be appreciated!

DRAFT HE Digital Twin Policy v1.3.pdf

On 14/05/2021 at 22:09, Graham Meaden said:

To take the example above and in the Ontopop video, what is the tool for: building model, exploring a model or supporting a repeatable process? The challenge in my mind is how do we practically bound a graph query and deliver the right information to the user first time on a repeatable…

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We all know that Ontologies have a massive role to play in the realisation of the Information Management Framework and the wider National Digital Twin Programme.

But damn(!), they can be hard to work with. Create an Ontology of any scale and the existing academic tools such as Protégé become pretty unmanageable pretty quickly.

And t…

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We need to create a vision for Digital Twins in our sector that truly sets them apart from the current art-of-the-possible (e.g. BIM, BI, etc.).To that end, I think it’s useful to focus not on what’s possible now, but what will become possible in the (relatively) near future.On-demand quantum computing will provide us with unprecedented ability…

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I’ve been drafting a Digital Twin Policy for HE and would appreciate any feedback. Some of it is quite HE-specific, but I’m hoping that the broader structure and themes is accessible to non-HE people. What do you think?

[Very very draft] Highways England Digital Twin… Read more

On 14/08/2020 at 17:45, Tom Hughes said:

Although I see it tucked into your governance item I wonder if a specific statement about value about could be missing/be beneficial. 

Value: To define how value is created by digital twins and through the secure sharing of information with others.

Good idea!

I stole a lot of this content and wrote the following:

Our definition of a Digital Twin is as follows:

A Digital Twin is a digital representation of a physical thing (and its operation) that one can query.

This definition helps us to distinguish between the concept of a Digital Twin, and the more established practice of BIM. The key…

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I’ve decided to stop dithering and try to set out a concise, to-the-point, Digital Twin Policy for HE. 

Here’s what I have in terms of outline contents, with some help from @Neil

What am I missing?

Topic to be covered:

1. Definition: To agree a working definition of Digital Twin for Highways England, and provide some…

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Attended a presentation from Costain / DfT today about their Intelligent Infrastructure Control Centre (architecture below). At first glance there is some substantial overlap with NDT, and apparently CDBB are involved. 

Is anyone here sighted on this work, and how best to align with the wider NDT IMF / Commons?

How useful do you think that the parallels in sectors such as manufacturing and aerospace are likely to prove in infrastructure @Peter?

It feels like the established use cases for Digital Twins are usually twins for ‘things’ rather than ‘systems’.  Does the twin approach for a factory (e.g. a system of defined things) translate to…

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When asked by a relatively senior member of staff here what the Digital Twin is all about, and why they should care, I pulled together some SmartArt (pictured) to try to explain the component parts of an infrastructure organisation’s twin. Keen to get the wider community’s thoughts on this approach.

Digital Twins are having a bit of moment…

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24 minutes ago, holgerkessler said:

Good morning, new to this group – and hoping to contribute more and more in the coming months….

I would be very interested to stay in touch with both Network Rail and Highways England regarding your underground asset data.

 

Welcome!

Do you have any standard…

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One of the things that we discovered here at Highways England shortly after starting work on our Ontology (see previous post) was that there isn’t a huge provision of COTS tools to help you visualise your Ontology, and consequently human readability suffers once you move past a few dozen entities and relationships. Moreover, a key…

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32 minutes ago, simon.evans@arup.com said:

Hi Ian,

I am also interested.

simon.evans@arup.com / SimonEvans

Thanks,

Simon

Nope probs Simon, we’ll hook you up shortly.

20 minutes ago, Liz Varga said:

Thanks for this. I’d like access to the HE developments and to contribute where possible.  User name (also my email)  l.varga@ucl.ac.uk

We’ve been looking at infrastructure ontologies as part of DAFNI https://www.dafni.ac.uk/ who have a high performance computing capability to provide d…

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On 3/7/2020 at 9:45 PM, G. Lewis said:

Hi Ian

I would be interested also.

username is G.Lewis

Regards

Graham Lewis

 

No problems, we’ll add you shortly

On 2/20/2020 at 10:03 AM, DRossiter87 said:

Hi Ian, Thank you I’d be very interested in having a look.  I’ve just signed-up to Protege, username: DRossiter87

Will sort that out for you. What’s your email?