Proposed Group: Semantic Construction Product Data Community Group

The Semantic Construction Product Data Community Group has been proposed by Baran Bacak:

Product information in the construction industry today is highly fragmented—scattered across Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), BIM models (e.g., IFC), Product Data Templates (PDTs), CE markings, technical sheets, and sustainability labels. To support new regulatory and digital demands, this group seeks to develop shared ontologies and linked data patterns that unify such fragmented data.

The mission of this Community Group is therefore to define, structure, and promote future open semantic standards for digital construction product data, enabling interoperability, transparency, and automation across the construction sector.

Objectives

• Develop shared ontologies and data models (using OWL/RDF) for construction products
• Align with existing classification systems and standards such as IFC, eClass, CEN/ISO
• Create SHACL-based validation patterns for scenarios such as EPD compliance or CPR alignment
• Provide guidance for data providers via reference implementations and example datasets
• Enable use cases tied to DPPs, sustainability reporting, lifecycle analysis, and public procurement

Participation

The group welcomes in particular participants with these interests and skills:

• Architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals
• Semantic web and knowledge graph developers
• Standards bodies and regulatory authorities
• Open data and digital transformation advocates
• Researchers working in BIM, LCA, EPDs, DPPs, and related fields

Deliverables

• Construction product ontology and linked data vocabulary
• SHACL validation patterns for compliance and reasoning
• Mappings to existing industrial standards (e.g., IFC, ISO 23386, ISO 22057)
• Use-case guides, RDF example datasets, and reference implementations
• Summary report or W3C Community Gropu Report

You are invited to support the creation of this group. Once the group has a total of 5 supporters, it will be launched and people can join to begin work. In order to support the group, you will need a W3C account.

Once launched, the group will no longer be listed as “proposed”; it will be in the list of current groups.

If you believe that there is an issue with this group that requires the attention of the W3C staff, please send us email on site-comments@w3.org

Thank you,
W3C Community Development Team