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ECPPM2016 - SemCat: Publishing and Accessing Building Product Information as Linked Data

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Pieter Pauwels
Pieter Pauwels

Presentation at the 11th European Conference on Product and Process Modelling (2016), in Limassol, Cyprus. Presentation and article are authored by Gudni Gundason and Pieter Pauwels.

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SemCat: Publishing and Accessing Building Product Information as Linked Data ECPPM 2016 Limassol, Cyprus Gudni Gudnason, Innovation Center Iceland, gudni.g@nmi.is Pieter Pauwels, Ghent University, pipauwel.pauwels@ugent.be
The profile of a product manufacturer • Small • Regional company • Limited ICT capabilities and resources 95% less than 20 people
paper html and web portals CSV, XML, JSON 2D 3D BIM …
The duties of a product manufacturer • Producing and selling products – Trade – Business processes • Supplying precision technical data – Energy performance analysis – Life-cycle cost (LCC) – Life-cycle assessment (LCA) – BIM processes Linked data? 40% of building cost
BIM Objects
Tons of questions • does a BIM object add value to my customers? • for which products in my product range do I need to have BIM objects? • how much detail will I need to specify and which software formats do I need to support? • how do I handle different professional and process information requirements? • will there be a return on my investment and subsequent increase in sales?
product data templates (PDTs) 7
“A product data template is simply a form that contains standardised headings against which manufacturers product information is placed. There is a different template for each type of product.” Ian Chapman, NBS https://toolkit.thenbs.com/articles/pdts What is a PDT? 8
Declaration of Performance (DoP) Environment Performance Declaration (EPD),
Strategy and approach • Specified and developed by specialists in the industry with varying relevant backgrounds e.g. professional associations, trade association, interest groups, industry standard bodies, and specifier and product manufacturer organizations • Common shared view in specifying product types, including properties, naming, units etc. and thus guaranteeing a common set of properties and attributes in accordance with harmonized, national and industry standards and guidelines.
Template Tool Product Rockwool Density 30 kg/m3 Thickness 100 mm Width 600 mm Length 1200 mm Thermal Resistance 1.85 M2 K/W Fire Class A1 Product Data PDF Product Data Template IFC COBie Import Export Environmental Product Declaration Production DB
aim • a user friendly tool to assist manufacturers in supplying structured data about their products – No need to manage hundreds Excel data sheets – No new PDT • Simplify the publication process for publishing product data towards prospective customers
How • Use the appropriate web technologies, • Use agreed PDTs, • Use intuitive interfaces (for manufacturers: Excel)
SemCat 14
SemCat Excel Plug-in Catalogue Manager Template Manager Catalogue Registration Export Template Engine PDT PDT Search Engines Suppliers Information Providers Export Templates Product Data Templates + SPie, NBS Import Publish to RDF & HTML+Microdata Product Catalogue Archive
ECPPM2016 - SemCat: Publishing and Accessing Building Product Information as Linked Data
Classification tables
Property tables
Unit tables
Manage product catalogue
Import/Export PDT
New Product / Edit Product
Export catalogue
Publication of data 1. as a product catalogue represented in RDF and 2. as product web pages with embedded semantic mark-up in Microdata/RDFa for company and product data. => provide open standard multi-lingual semantic product data by using industry established PDTs
SemCat Excel Plug-in Catalogue Manager Template Manager Catalogue Registration Export Template Engine PDT PDT Search Engines Suppliers Information Providers Export Templates Product Data Templates + SPie, NBS Import Publish to RDF & HTML+Microdata Product Catalogue Archive
Conclusion 26
Gains 1. Semantic search with indexes at a much higher detail and property level 2. Facilitating innovative business ventures in linking various construction data with manufactured product data, 3. suppliers and product distributers’ access to detailed product and business data e.g. packaging and shipping, 4. supporting BIM object development with external detailed product data through links to the actual product data by their unique web URI or class of products by classification code, 5. extending the product data by linking to company specific and market data (e.g. suppliers and identifying location, regions, countries where the product is eligible for shipment etc.), 6. making the product data part of the global web of data.
Future work • Synchronization of existing product catalogues with new versions of PDTs. • The development of a more consistent method to structure and naming property sets in the properties table is pending. • align with SPie and NBS PDTs • investigate the possibility of using the property classification table in the OmniclassTM system as part of the properties ontology. • Formal definitions of enumerations for enumerated properties need to be considered • support for DoP and EDP publication.
Thank you Pieter Pauwels, Ghent University pipauwel.pauwels@ugent.be Gudni Gudnason, Innovation Center Iceland, gudni.g@nmi.is

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ECPPM2016 - SemCat: Publishing and Accessing Building Product Information as Linked Data

  • 1. SemCat: Publishing and Accessing Building Product Information as Linked Data ECPPM 2016 Limassol, Cyprus Gudni Gudnason, Innovation Center Iceland, gudni.g@nmi.is Pieter Pauwels, Ghent University, pipauwel.pauwels@ugent.be
  • 2. The profile of a product manufacturer • Small • Regional company • Limited ICT capabilities and resources 95% less than 20 people
  • 3. paper html and web portals CSV, XML, JSON 2D 3D BIM …
  • 4. The duties of a product manufacturer • Producing and selling products – Trade – Business processes • Supplying precision technical data – Energy performance analysis – Life-cycle cost (LCC) – Life-cycle assessment (LCA) – BIM processes Linked data? 40% of building cost
  • 6. Tons of questions • does a BIM object add value to my customers? • for which products in my product range do I need to have BIM objects? • how much detail will I need to specify and which software formats do I need to support? • how do I handle different professional and process information requirements? • will there be a return on my investment and subsequent increase in sales?
  • 8. “A product data template is simply a form that contains standardised headings against which manufacturers product information is placed. There is a different template for each type of product.” Ian Chapman, NBS https://toolkit.thenbs.com/articles/pdts What is a PDT? 8
  • 10. Strategy and approach • Specified and developed by specialists in the industry with varying relevant backgrounds e.g. professional associations, trade association, interest groups, industry standard bodies, and specifier and product manufacturer organizations • Common shared view in specifying product types, including properties, naming, units etc. and thus guaranteeing a common set of properties and attributes in accordance with harmonized, national and industry standards and guidelines.
  • 11. Template Tool Product Rockwool Density 30 kg/m3 Thickness 100 mm Width 600 mm Length 1200 mm Thermal Resistance 1.85 M2 K/W Fire Class A1 Product Data PDF Product Data Template IFC COBie Import Export Environmental Product Declaration Production DB
  • 12. aim • a user friendly tool to assist manufacturers in supplying structured data about their products – No need to manage hundreds Excel data sheets – No new PDT • Simplify the publication process for publishing product data towards prospective customers
  • 13. How • Use the appropriate web technologies, • Use agreed PDTs, • Use intuitive interfaces (for manufacturers: Excel)
  • 15. SemCat Excel Plug-in Catalogue Manager Template Manager Catalogue Registration Export Template Engine PDT PDT Search Engines Suppliers Information Providers Export Templates Product Data Templates + SPie, NBS Import Publish to RDF & HTML+Microdata Product Catalogue Archive
  • 22. New Product / Edit Product
  • 24. Publication of data 1. as a product catalogue represented in RDF and 2. as product web pages with embedded semantic mark-up in Microdata/RDFa for company and product data. => provide open standard multi-lingual semantic product data by using industry established PDTs
  • 25. SemCat Excel Plug-in Catalogue Manager Template Manager Catalogue Registration Export Template Engine PDT PDT Search Engines Suppliers Information Providers Export Templates Product Data Templates + SPie, NBS Import Publish to RDF & HTML+Microdata Product Catalogue Archive
  • 27. Gains 1. Semantic search with indexes at a much higher detail and property level 2. Facilitating innovative business ventures in linking various construction data with manufactured product data, 3. suppliers and product distributers’ access to detailed product and business data e.g. packaging and shipping, 4. supporting BIM object development with external detailed product data through links to the actual product data by their unique web URI or class of products by classification code, 5. extending the product data by linking to company specific and market data (e.g. suppliers and identifying location, regions, countries where the product is eligible for shipment etc.), 6. making the product data part of the global web of data.
  • 28. Future work • Synchronization of existing product catalogues with new versions of PDTs. • The development of a more consistent method to structure and naming property sets in the properties table is pending. • align with SPie and NBS PDTs • investigate the possibility of using the property classification table in the OmniclassTM system as part of the properties ontology. • Formal definitions of enumerations for enumerated properties need to be considered • support for DoP and EDP publication.
  • 29. Thank you Pieter Pauwels, Ghent University pipauwel.pauwels@ugent.be Gudni Gudnason, Innovation Center Iceland, gudni.g@nmi.is