DEFINITION OF A CONTAINER-BASED MACHINE-READABLE IDM INTEGRATING LEVEL OF INFORMATION NEEDS

Abstract

Information Delivery Manuals (IDM) are suited for describing construction data exchange. IDMs provide textual specifications of Exchange Information Requirements (EIR) for the exchange of the Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) data. Given the extensive amount of heterogeneous construction data beyond the scope of IFC and the inconsistency of requested and provided data, this paper proposes to define human-and machine-readable EIR for the exchange of standardized Information Containers for Linked Document Delivery (ICDD), which integrate and link heterogeneous data in a single package. To specify the required quality of the exchanged ICDD containers, an ontology is defined based on the standardized Level of Information Needs (LOIN) data schema. The developed ontology is evaluated in a use case and can be used to formulate the EIR for the interconnected packaged ICDD data within an IDM.