Building Data

Building data is defined here as data generated by different tools and processes during the Building Life Cycle and is generally not captured in BIM. For example, data generated by sensors or data (outputs) generated by simulation/performance tools.

This data is structured in some format and stored

Storage examples (open to extension)

Relational/SQL DB, Data Warehouse, Time series DB (e.g. OpenTSDB), files on server, etc.

Examples of data properties in this domain (open to extension)

• id, source id (e.g. sensor id), timeStamp, position, value, unit of measurement, uncertainty (e.g. precision), etc.

Data Models

Non-RDF-based

• transducerML

Formats

• csv, xml, time series data point

RDF-based

• CSVW
• Ontology of units of Measure (OM)
• OWL Time
• Semantic Web for Earth and Environment Terminology

List of Use Cases

• Title: Integrating Tabular Data Outputs from Simulators with other Data Sources using Linked-data and JSON