Along with a layered ontology architecture, the ODDs enable an easy, formal, object-oriented, machine-readable, and unified specification of building automation devices of different platforms.
It enables a formal, unified, and extensible specification of building automation devices, ensures their comparability, and facilitates a computer-enabled retrieval, selection, and interoperability evaluation, which is essential for an automated design.
The openEHR Foundation focus is mainly in the development of specifications for building what are called future-proof EHR systems.
The design and specifications of buildings, services and equipment, and the manner in which these are used and maintained, can have a large impact on food production factors such as the working environment and the quality of the food manufactured.
Beside a comprehensive specification of the hardware of building automation devices, especially specific semantic knowledge about their profiles is required for an automated design.
The variants of modularity arise naturally from the idea of building specifications in steps.
The specification of building products is an important but neglected area of design methods research, taking place largely in the detail design phase where important decisions are made with regard to building assembly and its long term durability.
The WAP specification covers all aspects of building a wireless application including WAP server requirements, recommendations for how a WAP client should display markup, what tasks a WAP gateway handles, and all the protocols and markup languages in between.
Instead of building detailed specifications, the new generation of coders practices agile development, which stresses quick iteration and flexibility over detailed planning and documentation.
'It's not that there is a crime problem here, it's just that people like this kind of security,' says John Griffiths, who works for the expatriate father-and-son developer Griffiths of Portugal who are in the process of building eight high-specification villas perched above the beach at Porto de Mos, five minutes' drive from the historical town of Lagos in the western Algarve.
