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In this chapter, an overview of the current state of the art, future trends and conceptual underpinnings of Linked Data in the field of Architecture and Construction is provided. A short brief introduction to the fundamental concepts of Linked Data and the Semantic Web is followed by practical applications in the building sector that include the use of OpenBIM information exchange standards and the creation of dynamic model extensions with external vocabularies and data sets. An introduction into harnessing the Linked Data standards for domain-specific, federated multi-models and the use of well-established query and reasoning mechanisms to address industry challenges is introduced. The chapter is concluded by a discussion of current developments and future trends.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Linked Open Vocabularies, http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/, accessed November 2017.

  2. 2.

    https://www.w3.org/community/lbd/, accessed November 2017.

  3. 3.

    http://coinsweb.nl/, accessed March 2018.

  4. 4.

    https://www.citygml.org/, accessed November 2017.

  5. 5.

    http://ontology.tno.nl/saref/, accessed November 2017.

  6. 6.

    https://www.auto.tuwien.ac.at/downloads/thinkhome/ontology/BuildingOntologyShared Vocabulary.owl, accessed November 2017.

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  1. Department of Architecture and Urban Planning, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium

    Pieter Pauwels

  2. Trinity College Dublin, School of Computer Science and Statistics, O’Reilly Institute, Dublin 2, Ireland

    Kris McGlinn

  3. VisuaLynk Oy, Espoo, Finnland

    Seppo Törmä

  4. Chair of Design Computation, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Jakob Beetz

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  1. Chair of Computational Modeling and Simulation, Technical University of Munich, München, Germany

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  2. Lehrstuhl für Informatik im Bauwesen, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany

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  3. Chair of Intelligent Technical Design, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany

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  4. Chair of Design Computation, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

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Pauwels, P., McGlinn, K., Törmä, S., Beetz, J. (2018). Linked Data. In: Borrmann, A., König, M., Koch, C., Beetz, J. (eds) Building Information Modeling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92862-3_10

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