Building product catalogues on the Semantic Web
Attila Dikbas, Esin Ergen, Heyecan Giritli · 2009
The need to organize building information mod- els (BIM), (national) classification systems and building product libraries in standardized, inter- operable ways has been outlined in many research works and has found its way into many of today’s commercially available applications and stand- ards. Rooted in earlier classification systems such as the SfB (Giertz 1982), initiatives like the Dutch Lexicon effort led by Woestenenk (2000, 2002) and the BARBi library by Bell and Björkhaug (2006) have created the need of finding a uniform stand- ard for modeling taxonomies and complex ontolo- gies. The ISO 12006 parts 2 and 3 were defined as an answer to this need. Their modeling choices are discussed in section 3 of this paper.