Presentation at the 11th European Conference on Product and Process Modelling (2016), held in Limassol, Cyprus.

1. ifcOWL for Managing Product Data
ECPPM 2016
Limassol, Cyprus
Pieter Pauwels, Ghent University,
pipauwel.pauwels@ugent.be

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3. SPF XML RDF
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4. IFC Product
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5. IFC Product
Database
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6. Building Product
Data on the Web
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7. Tekla Warehouse
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8. BIMcomponents.com
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9. What’s in the package??
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11. standard product
data templates
(PDTs)
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12. “A product data template is simply a form that
contains standardised headings against which
manufacturers product information is placed.
There is a different template for each type of
product.”
Ian Chapman, NBS
https://toolkit.thenbs.com/articles/pdts
What is a PDT?
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14. • exchange of building product, equipment, and
material information, aiming for UK Government
BIM level 2
• +1200 PDTs for individual products and
assembled products
• Based on open industry standards
– ISO 16739 for model and objects properties,
– ISO 10303 Format,
– STEP
– ifcXML
– FM handover MVD COBie
• US-based
SPIE – Specifier’s Properties Information Exchange
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15. • exchange of building product, equipment, and
material information
• +5700 PDTs
• Based on open industry standards
– ?
• UK-based
NBS BIM Toolkit PDTs
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16. What does it look
like in ifcOWL?
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17. IFC Specification
EXPRESS
XSD
OWL
IfcPropertySet
IfcPropertySingleValue
SCHEMA PSD Schema
Psets in PSDxml
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19. IfcProduct
Agreed
PropertyName
as String
Type
and
Value 19

20. After applying SimpleBIM procedure…
IfcProduct
Agreed
Property
Type
and
Value 20

21. IFC Specification
EXPRESS
XSD
OWL
IfcPropertySet
IfcPropertySingleValue
SCHEMA PSD Schema
Psets in PSDxml
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22. Relating PSETs and PDTs to ifcOWL
Linked Open Vocabularies (lov.okfn.org)
ifcOWL
psdOWL
Translation of XML files into
simple data properties
(cfr. simpleBIM)
pdtOWL
BauDataWeb
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24. ifcOWL for Managing Product Data
0. Intro
1. Building Product Data on the Web
2. Standard PDTs
3. Result in ifcOWL
Thank you
Pieter Pauwels, Ghent University
pipauwel.pauwels@ugent.be 24