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Paper: w78-2004-Paper-6
| Paper title: | ISO 12006-2 and IFC – could they be harmonized? |
| Authors: | Anders Ekholm |
| Summary: | Today, there are two major candidates for core ontologies common to the construction and facilities management sector, the ISO 12006-2 Framework for classification of information, and the Industry Foundation Classes, IFC. ISO 12006-2 has been developed as a step in harmonizing different national and regional classification systems for construction and facilities management. The main purpose of the IFC standard is to enable effective information sharing, within the AEC/FM industry throughout the project lifecycle. These standards have similar objectives but show fundamental differences in semantics and structure. The presented study compares the standards and points at differences and similarities, firstly in order to understand their structure, and secondly to initiate a discussion about the need and the possibility to co-ordinate them. The analysis indicates a fundamental difference in view between the standards. The starting point of IFC was to reject classification, and therefore a harmonization with ISO 12006-2 would require a major shift of approach. |
| Type: | normal paper |
| Year of publication: | 2004 |
| Keywords: | Product models, Process models, Ontologies, Interoperability |
| Series: | w78:2004 |
| ISSN: | 2706-6568 |
| Download paper: | /pdfs/w78-2004-Paper-6.pdf |
| Citation: | Anders Ekholm (2004). ISO 12006-2 and IFC – could they be harmonized?. (ISSN: 2706-6568), http://itc.scix.net/paper/w78-2004-Paper-6 |
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