| Title |
A Study on the Ontology Representation of the IFC based Building Information Model |
| Authors |
Park Jung-Dae ; Kim Jin-Wook |
| Keywords |
Ontology ; IFC(Industry Foundation Classes) ; Product Model ; BIM(Building Information Model) ; OWL(Ontology Web Language) |
| Abstract |
As the next ICT infrastructure the Semantic Web will bring a lot of new technologies, the Web Ontology Language (OWL). Ontologies can be successfully applied as a semantic enabler of communication in fragmented and heterogeneous field of AEC/FM such as CAD and GIS. This paper present a approach for the development of an ontology with semantics of interoperable information for the building and construction sector based on the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC); the Building Information Model (BIM) using technology form STEP(ISO-10303 Standard Exchange of Product data). We discuss several approaches of extension of IFC models with semantic annotation of the interoperable and extensible information sets enhanced ontological level encoded in the W3C OWL. The proposed conversion methods from an IFC to an OWL which has been developed for research purposes address the issues of the ontology representation of IFC based BIM. The prototype of these mapping provides a set of methods for effectively generating, managing, reusing and engineering the semantically interoperable building model. |