Towards digital facility modelling for Sydney Opera House using IFC and semantic web technology

Electronic Journal of Information Technology in Construction

Volumn 12, Issue , 2007, Pages 347-362

  Schevers, Hans ^a   Mitchell, John ^b   Akhurst, Paul ^c   Marchant, David ^d   Bull, Stuart ^e   McDonald, Kevin ^a   Drogemuller, Robin ^a   Linning, Chris ^c  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^c Sydney Opera House   (Australia)

^d Woods Bagot   (Australia)

^e Arup Geotechnics   (Australia)

Author keywords

Digital facility model; Facility management; IFC; Ontology; Semantic web

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ONTOLOGY; OPERA HOUSES;

DIGITAL FACILITY MODELS; FACILITY MANAGEMENT; INDUSTRY FOUNDATION CLASSES (IFC); RESOURCE DESCRIPTION FRAMEWORK (RDF);

SEMANTIC WEB;

EID: 34547514275     PISSN: 14036835     EISSN: 14006529     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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