Uniclass & the Semantic Web

Stuart Chalmers

Technical Research Officer, RIBAManchester 31 January 2012

London 3 February 2012

12:00-12:30

Uniclass Online: Tools for integrating and

using Uniclass

Uniclass & The Semantic Web: linked, open

data standards

Uniclass & BIM: Towards integrated,

interoperable data

Uniclass Online: Tools for integrating and

using Uniclass

Uniclass & The Semantic Web: linked, open

data standards

Uniclass & BIM: Towards integrated,

interoperable data

Uniclass & BIM: Towards integrated,

interoperable data

Uniclass & BIM: Towards integrated,

interoperable data

Uniclass & BIM: Towards integrated,

interoperable data

Uniclass & BIM: Towards integrated,

interoperable data

Uniclass Online: Tools for integrating and

using Uniclass

Uniclass & The Semantic Web: linked, open

data standards

Uniclass & BIM: Towards integrated,

interoperable data

Uniclass Online: Tools for integrating and

using Uniclass

Uniclass & The Semantic Web: linked, open

data standards

Uniclass & BIM: Towards integrated,

interoperable data

"The Semantic Web provides a

common framework that allows

data to be shared and reused across

application, enterprise, and

community boundaries."

“The Semantic Web..is the web

done right”

Give your data a unique referencable ID

Provide information describing your data

Link your data to other data

Uniclass & The Semantic Web: linked, Open

Data Standards

Give your data a unique Give your data a unique referencablereferencable IDID

Provide information describing your data

Link your data to other data

Uniclass & The Semantic Web: linked, Open

Data Standards

Uniclass & The Semantic Web: linked, Open

Data Standards

Jaguar?

Give your data a unique Give your data a unique referencablereferencable IDID

Uniclass & The Semantic Web: linked, Open

Data Standards

Jaguar?

Give your data a unique Give your data a unique referencablereferencable IDID

Uniclass & The Semantic Web: linked, Open

Data Standards

Jaguar?

Give your data a unique Give your data a unique referencablereferencable IDID

Uniclass & The Semantic Web: linked, Open

Data Standards

Jaguar?

Give your data a unique Give your data a unique referencablereferencable IDID

Uniclass & The Semantic Web: linked, Open

Data Standards

http://dbpedia.org/page/Jaguar_%28band%29

http://dbpedia.org/page/Jaguar_Cars

http://dbpedia.org/page/Jaguar

Give your data a unique referencable ID

Provide information describing your dataProvide information describing your data

Link your data to other data

Uniclass & The Semantic Web: linked, Open

Data Standards

Uniclass & The Semantic Web: linked, Open

Data Standards

Uniclass & The Semantic Web: linked, Open

Data Standards

Give your data a unique referencable ID

Provide information describing your data

Link your data to other dataLink your data to other data

Uniclass & The Semantic Web: linked, Open

Data Standards

Uniclass & The Semantic Web: linked, Open

Data Standards

Uniclass & The Semantic Web: linked, Open

Data Standards

• As of September 2011:

– 31 billion pieces of information

– 504 million links between that info

• UK Gov: £10m over 5 years

– Open Data Institute

• Standards Adopted by:

– Google, Bing, Yahoo, Facebook, Wikipedia, Guardian,

BBC, NY Times....CPI…..

Uniclass & The Semantic Web: linked, Open

Data Standards

Uniclass Online: Tools for integrating and

using Uniclass

Uniclass & The Semantic Web: linked, open

data standards

Uniclass & BIM: Towards integrated,

interoperable data

Uniclass Online: Tools for integrating and

using Uniclass

Uniclass & The Semantic Web: linked, open

data standards

Uniclass & BIM: Towards integrated,

interoperable data

http://www.cpic.org.uk/uniclass#L747335

Uniclass Online: Tools for integrating and

using Uniclass

www.cpic.org.uk/uniclass

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Uniclass Online: Tools for integrating and

using Uniclass

Uniclass Online: Tools for integrating and

using Uniclass

• Full Uniclass 1.3.4 encoded

– 3789 terms

– Versioned, backwards compatible releases

• 1000+ terms linked

– Wikipedia & UK Gov data

– Interlinks between tables (congruence)

• Classification Mappings

– Omniclass + CISfb mappings

– CAD alias names, other?

• Multiple language translations

End of Feb Launch:

www.bimgateway.com

www.cpic.org.uk

@bimgateway

@cpicommittee

Uniclass Online: Tools for integrating and

using Uniclass