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Shepherding Metadata Through the Building Lifecycle

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Anand Krishnan Prakash,

Michael Wetter,

David E. CullerAuthors Info & Claims

BuildSys '20: Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation

Pages 70 - 79

https://doi.org/10.1145/3408308.3427627

Published: 18 November 2020 Publication History

Abstract

Many different digital representations of a building are produced over the course of its lifecycle. These representations contain the metadata required to support different stages of the building, from initial planning and design, to construction and commissioning, through operations, audits, retrofits and maintenance. However, because of differences in the semantics, structure and syntax of these representations, the metadata they contain is not interoperable. We present a novel method for leveraging these representations to create a unified, authoritative Brick metadata model for a building that can be continually maintained over the course of the building lifecycle. A simple synchronization protocol relays inferred Brick metadata from existing metadata sources such as gbXML, BuildingSync, Project Haystack and Modelica to a central integration server, which merges the metadata into a valid Brick model.

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Shepherding Metadata Through the Building Lifecycle
1. Information systems
  1. Information retrieval
    1. Document representation
      1. Data encoding and canonicalization
      2. Ontologies
    2. Retrieval tasks and goals
      1. Information extraction

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