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Explore a vast repository of schemas to describe the built environment in the AEC industry, promoting interoperability for diverse software programs and enabling democratic knowledge sharing. Transition from geometric to object-based CAD systems in a web services environment.
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Open Schema for Industrial Interoperability (with an application in the AEC industry) openSchema Context Results • AEC industry ... 1000s object-classes needed to describe built environment • some standardised (IAI-IFC) ... getting to big to be monolithic • 100s different programs each with private data structures ... • interoperability? • a repository of schemas (data structures) published by software developers • using a standard schema definition language (EXPRESS, XML Schema) • open source • using IFC and ISO classification systems as backbone Objectives Impact • private schemas documented • ... integration with other software • ... reuse of declaration by others • some may be promoted to IFC standard • democratic knowledge sharing environment to develop next generation AEC applications • transition from geometric to object based, integrated CAD systems • web services environment • bottom-up standardisation complements top down standardisation additional info: mdolenc@ikpir.fgg.uni-lj.si