LDAC 2019 — Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Week — 17-21 June 2019

This year the LDAC Committee, with the support of the Linked Building Data Community, hosted the first Summer School of LDAC alongside the 7th LDAC Workshop, in a week-long programme hosted by the Design and Computation Group of the Faculty of Architecture – University of Lisbon. The event took place at the Beta-i Hub in Lisbon, between June 17-21, 2019.

The first Summer School of LDAC was dedicated to the application of semantic web, linked data and web of data technologies in architecture, engineering and construction (AEC). Considering the growing interest in these technologies from the AEC industry and research institutions, this Summer School provided a starting point for participants that are new to the topic entirely and the opportunity to enhance the understanding and overview of implementations and approaches in the built environment for participants that wished to deepen their knowledge in this field.

With a mixture of lectures, personal interactions with experts in the field, hands-on exercises and coding challenges, the Summer School gave participants the opportunity to explore the possibilities of the semantic web, linked data and web of data technologies for their own research and practice needs at their individual pace and depth.

An integral part of the summer school was the application and strengthening of newly learned knowledge from lectures in practical research work: The Coding Challenge. The goal was for participants, grouped in interdisciplinary teams, to address and define real-world problems. The coding challenge prize was generously sponsored by Stardog.

You can find the tutorials and some presentations at the Summer School’s GitHub page: https://github.com/linkedbuildingdata/SummerSchoolOfLDAC/

The 7th LDAC Workshop followed usual set up with keynotes by Ruben Verborgh and Ora Lassila, plenty plenary sessions dedicated to research in LBD, the technical track dedicated to W3C LBD Community Group content, and the industry track with presentations from LBD applications in companies from the AEC industry.

Links:

LDAC 2019 website: http://linkedbuildingdata.net/ldac2019/
Summer School website: http://linkedbuildingdata.net/ldac2019/summerschool/

Conference proceedings: CEUR-WS proceedings Vol-2389
LDAC 2019 report: (forthcoming)
LDAC 2019 videos: (forthcoming)

Coding Challenge Teams:

Topic: Publish Smart Home Sensor Data using SWT
Participants: Ali Kücükavci, Andreas Bøving, Christian Frausing, Jonas Bacher

Topic: Publish Smart Home Sensor Data using SWT
Participants: Robert Lensing, James Allan, Pierre Bonnamy, Christian Nothstein, Ville Kukkonen

Topic: Integrate Heterogeneous Building Product Data
Participants: Ivan Stefanov, Marc Grooters, Sigve Pettersen

Topic: Integrate Heterogeneous Building Product Data
Participants: Jacky Chi Ho Lau, Chingwah Loh, Guillaume Picinbono, Deepthi Sundaram, Katja Breitenfelder

Topic: Automated Ontology Matching in the Built Environment – Winning Team
Participants: Wendelin Sprenger, Ranjith Soman, Madhumitha Senthilvel, Teemu Matasniemi

Topics: Extraction and Semantic Annotation of Geometry Data from IFC
Participants: Andre Hoffmann, Christian Thiele, Richard Pinka, Christoph Maurer

Topic: Generation of 3D Virtual Reality Scene from Linked Building Data
Participants: Julian, Kevin, Hervé Provost

Topic: Open Data Model for AEC Industry
Participants: Ozan Tasli, Meiling Shi, Jeroen Werbrouck, Xinyi Du, Ladislava Fialka