TY - CPAPER KW - Smart buildings KW - Data Integration KW - Metadata KW - Ontologies KW - OWL KW - RDF KW - Brick AU - Gabe Fierro AU - Anand Prakash AU - Cory Mosiman AU - Marco Pritoni AU - Paul Raftery AU - Michael Wetter AU - David Culler AB -

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.

BT - BuildSys '20: Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation CY - Japan DA - 11/2020 DO - 10.1145/3408308.3427627 LA - eng N2 -

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.

PP - Japan PY - 2020 T2 - BuildSys '20: Proceedings of the 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation T3 - BuildSys '20: - 7th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation TI - Shepherding Metadata Through the Building Lifecycle ER -