Buildings and Semantics

Chapter 5 Open data standards and BIM on the cloud

Pieter Pauwels, Dennis Shelden, Jan Brouwer, Devon Sparks, Saha Nirvik, and Tim Pat McGinley

DOI: 10.1201/9781003204381-6

CONTENTS

1. 5.1 Introduction
   1. 5.1.1 Building data interoperability
   2. 5.1.2 Data exchange
   3. 5.1.3 Standardisation versus flexibility
2. 5.2 IFC: the leading standard for BIM data
   1. 5.2.1 IFC data model
   2. 5.2.2 Modularity in IFC
   3. 5.2.3 Partial exchanges in IFC
3. 5.3 How to move the data to the cloud?
   1. 5.3.1 XML
      1. 5.3.1.1 XML from IfcDoc
      2. 5.3.1.2 XML from IFC.JAVA class library
      3. 5.3.1.3 XML from Autodesk Revit
   2. 5.3.2 JSON
   3. 5.3.3 RDF
4. 5.4 Data modelling Approach 1: backwards compatible file transformations and data exchanges
   1. 5.4.1 Full file serialisations
   2. 5.4.2 File size
   3. 5.4.3 Round-tripping ...