Digital Heritage International Congress - 2013

1. Integrating building information modelling and
semantic web technologies for the management of
built heritage information
Pieter Pauwels - University of Amsterdam
Danilo Di Mascio - G. d’Annunzio University Pescara
Rens Bod - University of Amsterdam
Ronald De Meyer - Ghent University

2. AIMS OF THE PROJECT

3. Ghent University Library,
Book Tower,
Ghent, Belgium
Documenting the built heritage
AIMS:
- Communicate cultural values and
construction aspects of a building
- Manage, maintain and preserve
built heritage artefacts

4. Book Tower in Building Information Modelling (BIM) application (Autodesk Revit Architecture)

5. Book Tower in ontology editor
(Topbraid Composer)

7. THE MODELLING PROCEDURE

8. 1. LEARNING PHASE

9. 2. DIGITAL RECONSTRUCTION PHASE

10. 3. ANALYSIS PHASE
4. SEMANTIC ENRICHMENT PHASE

11. 5. INTEGRATION PHASE

13. INTEGRATION OF INFORMATION

14. http://demo.mmlab.be/IFC-repo/

15. RDF graph structure: triples
predicate
subject
object

21. STL/RDF
X3D/RDF
IFC/RDF

22. • keep similar representations as parallel as
possible from each other
ITALIAN UNI NORMATIVE
- ‘vertical elevation structure’
- ‘envelope’
- ‘exterior vertical frame’
- ‘horizontal and sloping
elevation structure’
- ‘building system part’
- ‘interior partition’
-…
IFC
?
- ‘IfcColumn’
- ‘IfcBeam’
- ‘IfcWall’
- ‘IfcStair’
- ‘IfcBuildingElement’
- ‘IfcSpace’
- …

23. Conclusions
1. Built heritage information can be modelled
using BIM applications and semantic web
technologies
2. BIM information can be integrated with other
heritage information in the Linked Open Data
cloud
3. Link resources / models with order and care

24. Questions
Pieter Pauwels
p.pauwels@uva.nl
pipauwel.pauwels@ugent.be
Danilo Di Mascio
ddimascio@danarchitect.com