During the 24 months of the project, all tasks were performed as described in the description of work. The tasks can be grouped as follows:
Industry Use Cases activities
In the period we have 47 members signed up to the LBD community group, with active participation from those members towards the development of use cases (35 projects) and towards the development of the Linked Building Data Working Group. We have also through our communication with the appropriate project partners and analysis of project deliverables, extracted 49 high level use cases for 35 EeB projects, comparing 53 EeB projects. Further to this, a classification of these use cases into several core areas of relevance to EeB projects, has been accomplished. These results can be found on the Linked Building Data (LBD) community group wiki and also in deliverables D1.1 D1.2 D2.2 and D2.3.
Guidelines, and best practices activities
WP2 has built upon the use case development in WP1 by identifying a methodology for capturing use cases, identifying their data requirements, aligning these with existing ontologies, linking these to new or existing ontologies, and publishing this data on the web. Data requirements have also been extracted from project use cases, and the community has been supported in specifying these, in particular, the NewTrend and OptEEmal projects. Using this methodology, and the BIM*Q tool developed by AEC3, we explored 30 use cases, 11 in greater detail, and reported on our findings on the Linked Building Data (LBD) community group wiki and in deliverables D2.3 D2.2 and D1.2. During the course of SWIMing the Linked Data Working Group (LDWG) has also been created in buildingSMART to oversee the standardization of ifcOWL, its alignment with other efforts within buildingSMART and further use case specifications.
Cluster building activities
SWIMing topics has been raised in a broad range of academic fora, including the LBD community, the LDAC workshop (2015 & 2016) and conferences, Ready4SmartCities (R4SC) Summer School (27 students), the Sustainable Places workshop, VoCamps, the EC hosted EeB Impact Workshop, an expert’s workshop hosted by our sister CSA, EEBERs, through participation in the CIB World Building Congress, BIM World and BAU17. (6) Cluster SWIMing workshops were organised, reports are available in D3.7-D3.12. Other activities, including VoCamps, and shared booths were also organised. Through the clustering activities, SWIMing went through more than 100 EeB projects and generated clusters (one of which in cooperation with the ECTP group) that revealed interesting results regarding the use of ontologies, BIM and LD in EeB projects. More results can be found in D3.5 and D3.6.
