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With the support of: The LDAC workshop series provides a focused overview on technical and applied research regarding the usage of semantic web, linked data and web of data technologies for architecture and construction (design, engineering, construction, operation, etc.). The workshop aims at gathering researchers, industry stakeholders, and standardization bodies of the broader Linked Building Data (LBD) community. This includes mainly the participants of the W3C Linked Building Data (LBD) Community Group. The aim of the workshop is to present current developments, coordinate efforts, gather stakeholders, and elaborate use cases.
We are delighted to collect in this volume the papers that were submitted and presented during the 6th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop. The workshop took place in London, from the 19th until the 21st of June 2018. During these days, the workshop attendees attended the presentations of the six peer reviewed accepted papers out of eight submissions. Furthermore, the workshop included a fruitful technical session, a business case session, and two inspiring invited keynotes: ● “Linked data and the mainstream: Adventures in standards and burger bars” by Ed Parsons (Google): Some experiences from bringing the rather academic realm of linked data to the conservative world of geospatial information, while trying to get you connected home assistant to tell your where you can get a good burger on a Sunday evening... How linked data can really back a difference! ● “In a layer cake with five stars on top, where precisely is the Linked (Open) Data special sauce?” by Tom Heath (ARUP): Over the years a number of conceptual models have been proposed to help explain Linked Data and the Semantic Web, and how best to adopt them incrementally. Each of these models speak to different audiences and different objectives, but they rarely make a cost/benefit analysis of Linked Data from a data architectural perspective. If we examine the Linked Data stack dispassionately, where precisely is the special sauce? Which layers are redundant with other technical approaches, where does the cost/benefit analysis not measure up, and where can Linked Data make the biggest impact in the built environment?
We would like to thank the Programme Committee members who provided feedback about the papers presented in this volume, the keynote speakers Ed Parsons (Google) and Tom Heath (ARUP) for their availability and providing such inspiring talks, the University College London and ARUP team whose diligent organisational work enabled three pleasant and productive days.
Programme Committee ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Álvaro Sicilia (La Salle Barcelona, Spain) Ana-Maria Roxin (University of Burgundy, France) Chi Zhang (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands) Christophe Nicolle (University of Burgundy, France) Daniel Garijo (Information Sciences Institute, USC, EEUU) German Nemirovskij (Hochschule Albstadt-Sigmaringen, Germany) Gonçal Costa (La Salle Barcelona, Spain) Jakob Beetz (Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands) James O'Donnell (University College Dublin, Ireland) Ken Enright (ARUP, UK) Kris McGlinn (University College Dublin, Ireland) María Navas-Loro (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) María Poveda Villalón (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Matteo Del Giudice (Politecnico di Torino, Italy) Maxime Lefrancois (Ecole des Mines de Saint-Etienne, France.) Nandana Mihindukulasooriya (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) Pieter Pauwels (Ghent University, Belgium) Raúl Alonso (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) Raúl García-Castro (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain) Seppo Törmä (Aalto University, Finland) Tamer El-Diraby (University of Toronto, Canada) Tom Beach (Cardiff University, UK) Tom Heath (ARUP, UK) Walter Terkaj (ITIA-CNR, Italy)
Dimitrios Rovas (University College London, UK)
Ken Enright (ARUP, UK)
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Ana-Maria Roxin (University of Burgundy, France) Jakob Beetz (Technical University Eindhoven, The Netherlands) Kris McGlinn (University College Dublin, Ireland) María Poveda Villalón (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) Pieter Pauwels (Ghent University, Belgium) Proceedingsofthe6thLinkedDatainArchitectureandConstructionWorkshop Towards French Smart Building Code: Compliance Checking Based on Semantic Rules Nicolas Bus, Ana Roxin, Guillaume Picinbono, Muhammad Fahad ………………………………………………………………………. 6 - 15 Extending the SAREF ontology for building devices and topology María Poveda-Villalón, Raúl García-Castro ………………………………………………………………………. 16 - 23 OPM: An ontology for describing properties that evolve over time Maxime Lefrançois, Mathias Bonduel, Christian Anker Hviid, Jan Karlsøj ………………………………………………………………………. 24 - 33 The IFC to Linked Building Data Converter - Current Status Mathias Bonduel, Jyrki Oraskari, Pieter Pauwels, Maarten Vergauwen, Ralf Klein ………………………………………………………………………. 34 - 43 An IFC-based interoperable framework for building linked-data José L. Hernández, Pedro Martín Lerones, Sonia Álvarez, Peter Bonsma, Andrè van Delft, Richard Deighton, Jan-Derrick Braun ………………………………………………………………………. 44 - 51 Semantic Encoding of Construction Regulations Thomas H. Beach, Yacine Rezgui ………………………………………………………………………. 52 - 61