LDAC 2023
Linked Data in Architecture and Construction

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 24 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 15 papers were accepted for this volume as full papers and 3 as short papers. In addition, 8 industry submissions were accepted and are included into the proceedings as abstracts.

Regular papers

• Linked data for the life cycle assessment of built assets 11 – 22
  Calin Boje, Tomas Navarrete Gutierrez, Sylvain Kubicki, Thomas Beach
• Lessons learned from designing and using bcfOWL 23 – 34
  Oliver Schulz, Jyrki Oraskari, Jakob Beetz
• Towards usable ICDD containers for ontology-driven data linking and link validation 35 – 46
  Philipp Hagedorn, Madhumita Senthilvel, Hans Schevers, Lucas Verhelst
• dstv: An ontology-based extension of the DSTV-NC standard for the use of linked data in the automation of steel construction 47 – 58
  Lukas Kirner, Jyrki Oraskari, Victoria Jung, Sigrid Brell-Cokcan
• Development of a national scale digital twin for domestic building stock 59 – 70
  Cathal Hoare, Tareq Alqazzaz, Usman Ali, Shushan Hu, James O'Donnell
• Towards a U.S. national bridge and infrastructure data dictionary: an introduction 71 – 84
  Aaron Costin, Marina Muller
• Semantic bSDD: improving the GraphQL, JSON and RDF representations of buildingSmart data dictionary 85 – 97
  Vladimir Alexiev, Mihail Radkov, Nataliya Keberle
• The semantic link between domain-based BIM models 98 – 109
  Wojciech Teclaw, Madsholten Rasmussen, Nathalie Labonnote, Jyrki Oraskari, Eilif Hjelseth
• Making urban energy use more intelligible using semantic digital twins 110 – 122
  Sander R. de Meij, Alex J.A. Donkers, Dujuan Yang, Matthijs Klepper
• Modular knowledge integration for smart building digital twins 123 – 138
  Isaac Fatokun, Arun Raveendran Nair, Thamer Mecharnia, Maxime Lefrançois, Victor Charpenay, Fabien Badeig, Antoine Zimmermann
• Metadata schema generation for data-driven smart buildings 139 – 150
  Lasitha Chamari, Joep van der Weijden, Lolke Boonstra, Stefan Hoekstra, Ekaterina Petrova, Pieter Pauwels
• Don’t shoehorn, but link compliance checking data 151 – 163
  Ruben Kruiper, Ioannis Konstas, Alasdair J.G. Gray, Farhad Sadeghineko, Richard Watson, Bimal Kumar
• Validation of building models against legislation using SHACL 164 – 175
  Emma Nuyts, Jeroen Werbrouck, Ruben Verstraeten, Louise Deprez
• Leveraging word embeddings and transformers to extract semantics from building regulations text 176 – 188
  Odinakachukwu Okonkwo, Amna Dridi, Edlira Vakaj
• Terrestrial laser scanning for surveying and 3D modelling of underground built heritage: A case study of hypogea in the Sassi of Matera 189 – 200
  Nicla Maria Notarangelo, Nicola Capece, Gilda Manfredi, Nicodemo Abate, Nicola Masini, Aurelia Sole, Ugo Erra

Short papers

• Learning partial correlation graph for multivariant sensor data and detecting sensor communities in smart buildings 201 – 211
  Xiang Xie, Manuel Herrera, Tejal Shah, Mohamad Kassem, Philip James
• Linked data for a construction big data platform 212 – 221
  Davide Simeone
• Taking stock: a linked data inventory of compliance checking terms derived from building regulations 222 – 237
  Ruben Kruiper, Ioannis Konstas, Alasdair J.G. Gray, Farhad Sadeghineko, Richard Watson, Bimal Kumar

Abstracts

• Asset information management for a communications network in Ireland 238 – 238
  Aonghus O’Keeffe, David Torrado
• bhOWL: BHoM with semantic web technologies 239 – 239
  Alessio Lombardi, Diellza Elshani, Al Fisher, Thomas Wortmann
• An open endpoint and framework for the development of linked data for building energy systems 240 – 240
  James Allan, JongGwan An, Reto Fricker, Sascha Stoller, Philipp Heer
• Exploring the benefits of semantic web technologies for providing holistic end of life analysis of civil infrastructure in the Netherlands 241 – 241
  Esra Bektas
• Graph and graphics: combining two powerhouses into one machine 242 – 242
  Philipp Dohmen, Emmanouil Argyris, Markus Färber, Michael Reeßing
• Semantic rules for generating SPARQL from semantic mark-up 243 – 243
  Nicholas Nisbet, Zijing Zhang
• Implementing and managing mappings for data transformation using SHACL Rules 244 – 244
  Lucas Verhelst
• Semantisation of rules for automated compliance checking 245 – 246
  Edlira Vakaj, Maxime Lefrançois, Amna Dridi, Thomas Beach, Mohamed Gaber, Gonçal Costa Jutglar, He Tan