BPMAI Collection: 29,810 Business Process Models for Research

The Business Process Management Academic Initiative (BPMAI) collection contains 29,810 process models created by academic members from institutions including the University of Potsdam, University of Tartu, and University of Melbourne. Models are available in multiple revisions and various process modeling languages, shared under a Creative Commons license for research. The collection is provided in JSON format, with tools for processing developed at the Hasso Plattner Institute.

Use Cases

• Analyzing process model evolution based on the availability of multiple revisions per model
• Comparing modeling styles and complexity across different process modeling languages mentioned in the collection
• Developing and testing process mining algorithms using the tens of thousands of models available
• Researching how people model business processes based on the iterative nature of the model revisions

Strengths

• Contains 29,810 individual models, providing substantial scale for analysis
• Includes models in multiple revisions, enabling longitudinal study of modeling changes
• Originates from a defined academic consortium with listed member institutions
• Made available under a Creative Commons license for research purposes

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified
• The associated PromniCat project is noted as no longer under active development

Provenance

Source

Business Process Management Academic Initiative (BPMAI), with models created by member academics and provided by Signavio GmbH.

Collection Method

Models were created by academic initiative members using a free workspace provided by Signavio and subsequently shared.

Time Range

The initiative's initial members were listed in 2012, but the temporal coverage of the models themselves is unknown.

Freshness

Last updated is unknown.

Geography

Global, with contributing institutions in Germany, Estonia, Australia, Austria, the Netherlands, and the United States.