Automation

Sociology

Inference

Data mining

Metadata modeling

World Wide Web

Normalization (sociology)

Engineering

Metadata repository

Artificial intelligence

Anthropology

Information retrieval

Compatibility (geochemistry)

Computer science

Schema (genetic algorithms)

Chemical engineering

Mechanical engineering

Metadata

The recent advances in the automation of metadata normalization and the invention of a unified schema --- Brick --- alleviate the metadata normalization challenge for deploying portable applications across buildings. Yet, the lack of compatibility between existing metadata normalization methods precludes the possibility of comparing and combining them. While generic machine learning (ML) frameworks, such as MLJAR and OpenML, provide versatile interfaces for standard ML problems, they cannot easily accommodate the metadata normalization tasks for buildings due to the heterogeneity in the inference scope, type of data required as input, evaluation metric, and the building-specific human-in-the-loop learning procedure.

Plaster