Interoperability between BIM and GIS through open data standards: An overview of current literature
- Title
- Interoperability between BIM and GIS through open data standards: An overview of current literature
- Editor(s)
- Poveda-Villalón, María
- Pauwels, Pieter
- Date
- 2021
- Pages
- 115 - 126
- Language
- eng
- Publisher
- CEUR-WS
- Place Published
- Luxembourg
- Short Title
- Interoperability between BIM and GIS through open data standards
- Abstract
- Building information modeling (BIM) allows representation of detailed information regarding building elements while geographic information system (GIS) allows representation of spatial information about buildings and their surroundings. Overlapping these domains will combine their individual features and provide support to important activities such as building emergency response , construction site safety, construction supply chain management, and sustainable urban design. Interoperability through open data standards is one method of connecting software tools from BIM and GIS domains. However, no single open data standard available today can support all information from the two domains. As a result, many researchers have been working to overlap or connect different open data standards to enhance interoperability. An overview of these studies will help identify the different approaches used and determine the approach with the most potential to enhance interoperability. This paper adopted a strong definition of interoperability using information technology (IT) based standard documents. Based on this definition, previous approaches towards improving interoperability between BIM and GIS applications through open data standards were studied. The result shows previous approaches have implemented data conversion, data integration, and linked data approaches. Between these methods, linked data emerged as having the most potential to connect open data standards and expand interoperability between BIM and GIS applications because it allows information exchange without editing the original data. The paper also identifies the main challenges in implementing linked data technologies for interoperability and provides directions for future research.
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