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Linked Building Data Community Group
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).
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Invitation to Linked Building Data CG Workshop series
Karl Hammar
Posted on:
July 15, 2022
During the upcoming autumn season, the W3C Linked Building Data Community Group will, in addition to our regular seminars and presentations, host a series of workshops on ontology engineering, ontology alignment, and software development for linked building data.
We hereby invite maintainers of ontologies and software to bring their deliverables to the LBD community for discussion and joint development work. We envisage you may have interests relating but not limited to requirements elicitation, feature prioritization, trade-offs in design, development patterns/architecture, ontology alignment practices, documentation needs, workflows, etc. Take this opportunity to use the LBD CG as a sounding board and advisory group — and who knows, maybe you’ll pick up a few contributors to your project while you’re at it?
The exact format and number of workshops will depend on maintainer interests, but tentatively we are looking at 2-3 workshops run every two or four weeks, with 2-3 maintainers/tracks per workshop. We’re now surveying that maintainer interest and ask that if you fit this role, and would like to participate with your project in a workshop like this, please contact the LBD CG chairs.
We appreciate if you share this notice to relevant research or industry communities!
With best regards,
Mathias Bonduel
Katja Breitenfelder
Karl Hammar
Anna Wagner
Joint Conference CIB W78 – LDAC 2021 (Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop) – Call for Papers
Katja Breitenfelder
Posted on:
February 4, 2021
The Joint Conference CIB W78 – LDAC 2021 will take place in Luxembourg between 11-15 October 2021 and is associated with the International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB), its Working Commission W78 on Information Technology for Construction and the Linked Data in Architecture and Construction research community. This event is organized by the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology (LIST) in collaboration with Cardiff University (UK) and the European Construction Technology Platform (ECTP).
The 38th CIB W78 conference on Information and Communication Technologies for AECO and the 9th LDAC workshop aim to bring together an international community of researchers and industrials interested in the areas of Construction Informatics, BIM, Digital Twin and Knowledge Management. The scope of the conference is broad in terms of the design, construction and operation and occupancy of constructed facilities, but it primarily relates to the integration and communication of data, information and knowledge in the life cycle of a facility.
CALL FOR PAPERS | Extended deadline
The call for papers for the CIB W78 and LDAC 2021 is open. The abstract submission deadline is extended to
15 February 2021!
Abstracts will only be accepted though the online abstract submission system. More details on the dedicated website.
IMPORTANT DATES
Extended abstract submission deadline: 15 February 2021
Notifications to the authors: 15 March 2021
Full paper submission: 1 April 2021
Review notifications: 1 June 2021
Author registration deadline: 15 June 2021
End of early bird registrations: 15 August 2021
Conference: 11-15 October 2021
LDAC Workshop: 11-13 October 2021
PRACTICAL INFORMATION | Conference
LDAC Workshop
Dates: 11-15 October 2021
Language: English
Duration: 5 days
Venue: Neumünster Abbey Cultural Exchange Center | 28, rue Münster | L-2160 LUXEMBOURG
Contact:
cibw78-ldac-2021@list.lu
Website Conference:
Website LDAC Workshop:
Copyright © 2021 Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, All rights reserved.
W3C LBD CG meets… Jereon Werbrouck – Scan-to-graph: Semantic enrichment of existing building geometry
Georg Ferdinand Schneider
Posted on:
December 13, 2020
The
W3C LBD CG
has been happy to welcome
Jereon Werbrouck
from Ghent University concluding the
selected-topics-in…-series
with his presentation on
Scan-to-graph: Semantic enrichment of existing building geometry
. In his excellent presentation he discribed how the scan-to-BIM process can be realised in a Semantic Web context and how Linked Data technologies allow to address problems from integrating heterogeneous data sources as well as allow to keep track of assumptions and uncertainties in the process. He concluded his presentation with a live demo of the
LBDServer
, a open-source implementation of the aforementioned functionalities. See the
minutes
for the details!
This community group holds
bi-weekly meetings
dedicated to topics on modelling data and information in the built environment. If you are interested in this topic join the groups discussions by becoming a member via the “join group” button on the right.
W3C LBD CG meets… Thomas Beach – Towards the Adoption of Automated Regulatory Compliance Checking in the Built Environment
Georg Ferdinand Schneider
Posted on:
November 20, 2020
The 5th presentation in the
selected-topics-in…-series
of the
W3C LBD CG
was held by
Thomas Beach
from Cardiff University (
GoogleScholar
) on “[…]
the adoption of automated regulatory compliance checking in the built environment
”. He presented his experience from the past years on how an automated compliance checking ecosystem would have to look like and how relevant stakeholders can be involved.
Source:
Slides
by
Thomas Beach
(c) Copyright
See the
minutes
and
slides
for the details!
The community group holds
bi-weekly meetings
dedicated to topics on modelling data and information in the built environment. Currently we are running a
“Selected topics in”- series
. If you are interested in this topic join the groups discussions by becoming a member via the “join group” button on the right.
W3C LBD CG meets… John Maiden – Knowledge Graphs for Commercial Real Estate
Georg Ferdinand Schneider
Posted on:
October 23, 2020
In the line of presentations related to the
selected-topics-in…-series
of the
W3C LBD CG
John Maiden
from
Cherre
continued the series with an interesting presentation on “
Building A Knowledge Graph Of Commercial Real Estate At Cherre
”. His presentation brought to the participants an interesting perspective how knowledge graph technologies can be used at scale in an industrial setup.
Sam valadi, CC BY 2.0
Check the
minutes
for more details on his use case, which started in New York City.
The community group holds
bi-weekly meetings
dedicated to topics on modelling data and information in the built environment. Currently we are running a
“Selected topics in”- series
. If you are interested in this topic join the groups discussions by becoming a member via the “join group” button on the right.
W3C LBD CG meets… Jenn J. McArthur – Integrating Building Automation Systems and BIM
Georg Ferdinand Schneider
Posted on:
October 23, 2020
The members of the
W3C LBD CG
partcipating in the bi-weekly
call on 6 October 2020
were happy to listen to the excellent presentation of
Jenn J. McArthur
from Ryerson University on “
Building automation system – BIM integration using a linked data structure
”.
(C) Copyright Jenn J. McAthur
Check the
minutes
for details and links to the slides.
The community group holds
bi-weekly meetings
dedicated to topics on modelling data and information in the built environment. Currently we are running a
“Selected topics in”- series
. If you are interested in this topic join the groups discussions by becoming a member via the “join group” button on the right.
W3C LBD CG meets… the W3C Web of Things Working Group
Georg Ferdinand Schneider
Posted on:
September 18, 2020
The W3C Linked Building Data Group (W3C LBD CG) was happy to gain interesting insights from the guests
Maria Husmann
and
Sebastian Käbisch
from Siemens AG on the current state of the
W3C Web of Things Working Group
Screenshot from
. Displayed content is licensed by the
W3C Software and Document License
See the
minutes
if you are interested in the details. Potential alignments of the standard with the groups outputs are planned to be discussed at the TPAC event in October 2020.
The
W3C LBD CG
holds bi-weekly meetings dedicated to topics on modelling data and information in the built environment. Currently we are running a
“Selected topics in”- series
. If you are interested in this topic become a member by clicking the “join group” button.
W3C LBD CG meets … – Selected Topics on Linked Data, Semantic Web and Graph Technologies in the Built Environment
Georg Ferdinand Schneider
Posted on:
September 4, 2020
The
W3C LBD CG
hopes that everyone had a great, relaxing and save summer and welcomes everyone back when starting over its bi-weekly calls again on 08 September 2020.
This autumn the group will continue its journey on bringing together experts from the domain with calls, where invited speakers present their latest research and results on Linked Data, Semantic Web and Graph Technologies in the Built Environment. You may find a overview on the selected topics on the speakers list below and all groups members are looking forward on welcoming you in the upcoming calls!
Date
Selected topic and speaker
08.09.2020
Exchange with the “
W3C Web of Things (WoT) Working Group
” with
Sebastian Käbisch
and
Maria Husmann
from Siemens AG
22.09.2020
Group related topics
06.10.2020
Building automation system – BIM integration using a linked data structure
” by
Jenn J. McArthur
from Ryerson University (
GoogleScholar
20.10.2020
Building A Knowledge Graph Of Commercial Real Estate At Cherre
” by
John Maiden
from
Cherre
03.11.2020
Group related topics
17.11.2020
Towards the adoption of automated regulatory compliance checking in the built environment
” by
Thomas Beach
from Cardiff University (
GoogleScholar
01.12.2020
Scan-to-graph: Semantic enrichment of existing building geometry
” by
Jeroen Werbrouck
from Ghent University
Exchange Accessibility Information on the Web
Georg Ferdinand Schneider
Posted on:
July 16, 2020
In this weeks call the members of the
W3C LBD CG
were happy to have
Holger Dieterich
and
Sebastian Felix Zappe
from
W3C LDA CG
as guests presenting an amazing effort towards using digital technologies to easen the daily life of people with
reduced mobility by distributing accessibility information on the web
The two pointed to their work on developing
a11yjson
, a JSON based datamodel to describe accessibility information on the web. They plan to formalise this format using Linked Data and Semantic Web Technologies and a potential collaboration with
W3C LBD CG
should focus on the linking to
Building Topology Ontology (BOT)
The community group holds
bi-weekly meetings
dedicated to topics on modelling data and information in the built environment. If you are interested in this topic become a member by clicking the “join group” button.
Presentation on Damage Topology Ontology (DOT)
Georg Ferdinand Schneider
Posted on:
June 2, 2020
The W3C Linked Building Data Group (W3C LBD CG) was happy to gain interesting insights in today´s teleconference from
Al-Hakam Hamdan (TU Dresden, Germany)
presenting on his research related to the
Damage Topology Ontology (DOT)
. See the
minutes
if you are interested in the details on knowledge-based damage identification and classification.
The W3C LBD CG holds bi-weekly meetings dedicated to topics on modelling data and information in the built environment. If you are interested in this topic become a member by clicking the “join group” button.
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