Semantic-Web Supported Knowledge Management System: An Approach to Enhance Collaborative Building Design

Yoke Chin Lai; Mads Carlsen; Per Christiansson; Kjeld Svidt

Semantic-Web Supported Knowledge Management System: An Approach to Enhance Collaborative Building Design

Yoke Chin Lai, Mads Carlsen, Per Christiansson, Kjeld Svidt

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Abstract

This paper focuses on a lightweight ontology-based knowledge management system, which is a main component of IT-CODE, a Semantic Web based virtual workspace for enhancing the collaboration at an early building design stage. Technologies with respect to de facto standards that are proposed by industry group W3C are implemented to develop this knowledge management system. Resource Description Framework (RDF) associated with its Schema (RDFS) is selected as ontology language of the system. RDF(S) with its embedded reasoning techniques provides a rich set of constructs to facilitate the generation of ontologies so that the annotated information can be machine readable. Initiatives taken in the building industry for the evolution of the Semantic Web will be overviewed in this paper. Potential benefits offered by the RDF(S)-based knowledge management system to the building industry will be explained. Approaches of how the knowledge is represented in RDF-based ontology, is shared and retrieved among actors participating in the early design phase of a building project will also be described and illustrated. The paper will conclude with a description of how the early design phase may benefit from IT-CODE and its innovative knowledge management system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Towards a Vision for Information Technology in Civil Engineering
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the Fourth Joint International Symposium on Information Technology in Civil Engineering
Editors	I. Flood, I. Flood
Pages	127-141
Number of pages	15
Publication status	Published - 2003
Externally published	Yes
Event	Towards a Vision for Information Technology in Civil Engineering: Proceedings of the Fourth Joint International Symposium on Information Technology in Civil Engineering - Hashville, TN, United States Duration: 15 Nov 2003 → 16 Nov 2003

Publication series

Name	Towards a Vision for Information Technology in Civil Engineering

Conference

Conference	Towards a Vision for Information Technology in Civil Engineering: Proceedings of the Fourth Joint International Symposium on Information Technology in Civil Engineering
Country/Territory	United States
City	Hashville, TN
Period	15/11/03 → 16/11/03

Keywords

Collaborative design
Knowledge management system
Ontologies
RDF(S)
Semantic-web

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Civil and Structural Engineering
Computer Science Applications

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Lai, Y. C., Carlsen, M., Christiansson, P., & Svidt, K. (2003). Semantic-Web Supported Knowledge Management System: An Approach to Enhance Collaborative Building Design. In I. Flood, & I. Flood (Eds.), Towards a Vision for Information Technology in Civil Engineering: Proceedings of the Fourth Joint International Symposium on Information Technology in Civil Engineering (pp. 127-141). (Towards a Vision for Information Technology in Civil Engineering).

Lai, Yoke Chin ; Carlsen, Mads ; Christiansson, Per et al. / Semantic-Web Supported Knowledge Management System : An Approach to Enhance Collaborative Building Design. Towards a Vision for Information Technology in Civil Engineering: Proceedings of the Fourth Joint International Symposium on Information Technology in Civil Engineering. editor / I. Flood ; I. Flood. 2003. pp. 127-141 (Towards a Vision for Information Technology in Civil Engineering).

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Lai, YC, Carlsen, M, Christiansson, P & Svidt, K 2003, Semantic-Web Supported Knowledge Management System: An Approach to Enhance Collaborative Building Design. in I Flood & I Flood (eds), Towards a Vision for Information Technology in Civil Engineering: Proceedings of the Fourth Joint International Symposium on Information Technology in Civil Engineering. Towards a Vision for Information Technology in Civil Engineering, pp. 127-141, Towards a Vision for Information Technology in Civil Engineering: Proceedings of the Fourth Joint International Symposium on Information Technology in Civil Engineering, Hashville, TN, United States, 15/11/03.

Semantic-Web Supported Knowledge Management System: An Approach to Enhance Collaborative Building Design. / Lai, Yoke Chin; Carlsen, Mads; Christiansson, Per et al.
Towards a Vision for Information Technology in Civil Engineering: Proceedings of the Fourth Joint International Symposium on Information Technology in Civil Engineering. ed. / I. Flood; I. Flood. 2003. p. 127-141 (Towards a Vision for Information Technology in Civil Engineering).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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