ecppm2016 - ifcowl for managing product data

ifcOWL for Managing Product Data

ECPPM 2016 Limassol, Cyprus

Pieter Pauwels, Ghent University, pipauwel.pauwels@ugent.be

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SPF XML RDF 3

IFC Product

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IFC Product Database

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Building Product Data on the Web

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Tekla Warehouse

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BIMcomponents.com

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What’s in the package??

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standard product data templates

(PDTs)

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“A product data template is simply a form that contains standardised headings against which manufacturers product information is placed. There is a different template for each type of product.”

Ian Chapman, NBS https://toolkit.thenbs.com/articles/pdts

What is a PDT?

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• exchange of building product, equipment, and material information, aiming for UK Government BIM level 2

• +1200 PDTs for individual products and assembled products

• Based on open industry standards – ISO 16739 for model and objects properties, – ISO 10303 Format, – STEP – ifcXML – FM handover MVD COBie

• US-based

SPIE – Specifier’s Properties Information Exchange

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• exchange of building product, equipment, and material information

• +5700 PDTs

• Based on open industry standards

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• UK-based

NBS BIM Toolkit PDTs

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What does it look like in ifcOWL?

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IFC Specification

EXPRESS XSD OWL

IfcPropertySet

IfcPropertySingleValue

SCHEMA PSD Schema

Psets in PSDxml

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IfcProduct

Agreed PropertyName

as String

Type and

Value 19

After applying SimpleBIM procedure…

IfcProduct

Agreed Property

Type and

Value 20

IFC Specification

EXPRESS XSD OWL

IfcPropertySet

IfcPropertySingleValue

SCHEMA PSD Schema

Psets in PSDxml

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Relating PSETs and PDTs to ifcOWL Linked Open Vocabularies (lov.okfn.org)

ifcOWL

psdOWL

Translation of XML files into simple data properties

(cfr. simpleBIM)

pdtOWL

BauDataWeb

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ifcOWL for Managing Product Data

0. Intro

1. Building Product Data on the Web

2. Standard PDTs

3. Result in ifcOWL

Thank you

Pieter Pauwels, Ghent University

pipauwel.pauwels@ugent.be

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