This group brings together experts in the area of building information modelling (BIM) and Web of Data technologies to define existing and future use cases and requirements for linked data based applications across the life cycle of buildings. A list of recommended use cases will be produced by this community group.
The envisioned target beneficiaries of this group are both industrial and governmental organisations who use data from building information modelling applications and other data related to the building life cycle (sensor data, GIS data, material data, geographical data, and so forth) to achieve their business processes and whom will benefit from greater integration of data and interoperability between their data sets and the wider linked data communities. For example, benefit may be obtained by publishing and combining localised data on new cheaper building materials, energy efficient building devices and systems, along with real time data on weather patterns, energy prices and geodata. By making this data available to applications, they will be better able to support decision makers during the whole of the building life cycle, which includes design, construction, commissioning, operation, retrofitting/refurbishment/reconfiguration, demolition, and recycling of buildings.
The group will engage with these beneficiaries through surveys and events organised in conjunction with the affiliated workshop series on Linked Data for Architecture and Construction (LDAC).
Group's public email, repo and wiki activity over time
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The Linked Data in Architecture and Construction (LDAC) workshop series aims at bringing researchers, industry stakeholders, standardization bodies and other interested members of this growing community together. The workshop allows to present current developments, coordinate efforts, gather stakeholders use cases and plan future activities. The topic of the 2015 event is “The use the Web of Data technologies for building information management in diverse practical use cases”.
The 2015 edition will take place on 15-17 July 2015. The event will be held back-to-back with the eg-ice workshop (13-15 July) on the campus of the TU Eindhoven in the Netherlands. The event will follow, to a large extent, the program outline and set up that was used in the 2014 LDAC workshop. Namely, in addition to a high number of plenary sessions, two parallel tracks will take place: one track focuses on industrial use cases and vocabularies for the Web of Building Data, and the other focuses on technical advances and prospects. In addition, a number of hands-on sessions will be hosted as well.
PREPARE A PRESENTATION (15+5min.)
Submit a 2-pager position statement (about 800 words) before the submission deadline (27 May 2015), including the following:
Title, authors, contact addresses, affiliations
Which session do you wish to present in: use case, technical, or plenary
Abstract, introduction, short presentation of your work, and main contribution to the LDAC event
PREPARE A HANDS-ON SESSION (60min.)
Note that we can host a maximum of 6 hands-on sessions. Submit a 4-pager statement before the submission deadline (27 May 2015), including the following:
Title, authors, contact addresses, affiliations
Short presentation of the main topic of the proposed hands-on session
Indication of how you plan to organize the hands-on session
Facility requirements (server, beamer, …) and requirements for attendees (own laptop, software installed, …)
REGISTRATION FORMULA
Attendance of the LDAC workshop is free. Dinners on Wednesday and Thursday are on your own expenses, but we will make a group reservation in a nice restaurant for those interested. Please register your attendance via email:J.Beetz@tue.nl and/or pipauwel.pauwels@ugent.be.
A VoCamp is an informal event where people can spend some dedicated time creating lightweight vocabularies/ontologies for the Semantic Web/Web of Data. The emphasis of the events is not on creating the perfect ontology in a particular domain, but on creating vocabularies that are good enough for people to start using for publishing data on the Web.
On April 22nd and 23rd, 2015, the first VoCamp on Energy measurement data in municipalities will take place in Vienna. The goal of the VoCamp will be to obtain a common ontology that can be used by municipalities to represent their energy measurement data in order to publish such data online as Linked Data. This event will allow participants to have practical experience in the definition of vocabularies for smart city data taking energy measurement datasets from participants and build vocabularies for them.
Registration for the VoCamp deadline: 1st April, 2015. Note: There is a limited budget for travel (economy class within EU) and accommodation expenses (not higher than 130€ per day) according to the legislation of the EC.
There have been a number of EXPRESS-to-OWL conversion procedures suggested in the past few years, resulting in diverse ‘flavours’ of ifcOWL. It seems nevertheless useful to (also) have one common ifcOWL ontology which can at least be used as a reference ontology. Walter Terkaj and I have been trying to find such a common EXPRESS-to-OWL conversion procedure for IFC and corresponding ifcOWL ontology over the past few months. We tried to check on earlier versions and build a version that is not too specific (too much restrictions), but also not too generic (cfr. all strings in class ranges / no domains and ranges). Above all, we aimed at keeping the ontology in a DL profile, so that one can appropriately use it for reasoning purposes. I think we succeeded nicely.
The proposed conversion procedure and the resulting ifcOWL ontology are online: http://www.w3.org/community/lbd/ifcowl/. This is a proposal and request for comments: it would be good if the ontology and the conversion procedure is properly evaluated. We would appreciate your feedback in order to evaluate the ontology and perhaps still modify it!
Looking forward to hearing your feedback!! Note that http://www.w3.org/community/lbd/ifcowl/ is a public page, so you can share this information with whoever might be interested.
This group brings together experts in the area of building information modelling (BIM) and Web of Data technologies to define existing and future use cases and requirements for linked data based applications across the life cycle of buildings. A list of recommended use cases will be produced by this community group.
The envisioned target beneficiaries of this group are both industrial and governmental organisations who use data from building information modelling applications and other data related to the building life cycle (sensor data, GIS data, material data, geographical data, and so forth) to achieve their business processes and whom will benefit from greater integration of data and interoperability between their data sets and the wider linked data communities. For example, benefit may be obtained by publishing and combining localised data on new cheaper building materials, energy efficient building devices and systems, along with real time data on weather patterns, energy prices and geodata. By making this data available to applications, they will be better able to support decision makers during the whole of the building life cycle, which includes design, construction, commissioning, operation, retrofitting/refurbishment/reconfiguration, demolition, and recycling of buildings.
The group will engage with these beneficiaries through surveys and events organised in conjunction with the affiliated workshop series on Linked Data for Architecture and Construction (LDAC).
This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2014-06-26 by Kris McGlinn. The following people supported its creation: Kris McGlinn, Pieter Pauwels, Michael Petychakis, Jakob Beetz, Seppo Törmä. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of its activities.
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