Taking stock: a Linked Data inventory of Compliance Checking terms derived from building regulations

Ruben Kruiper; Ioannis Konstas; Alasdair J.G. Gray; Farhad Sadeghineko; Richard Watson; Bimal Kumar

Taking stock: a Linked Data inventory of Compliance Checking terms derived from building regulations

Ruben Kruiper^*, Ioannis Konstas, Alasdair J.G. Gray, Farhad Sadeghineko, Richard Watson, Bimal Kumar

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Abstract

Compliance Checking (CC) would be a lot easier if we could automatically map between (1) terms that occur in building regulations and (2) elements of buildings and building products. However, the terminology used in the regulations is vastly different from the terminology found in Building Information Models (BIM). We are therefore forced to somehow shoehorn the vocabulary of regulatory terms into a set of classes that may well be several orders of magnitude smaller. This paper aims to reduce the gap between terms found verbatim in the regulations, and the classes that exist in Linked Data Vocabularies in Architecture and Construction. We explore the automated extraction of domain terminology from building regulations, and interlink the resulting terms with existing controlled vocabularies like Uniclass. The resulting Knowledge Graph (KG) can be used to suggest relevant and related domain terminology, which improves collecting the inventory of Linked Data terms required for CC.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 11th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop
Editors	Walter Terkaj, María Poveda-Villalón, Pieter Pauwels
Pages	222-237
Number of pages	16
Publication status	Published - 1 Feb 2024
Externally published	Yes
Event	11th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop - Casa delle Tecnologie Emergenti (CTE), Matera, Italy Duration: 15 Jun 2023 → 16 Jun 2023 https://linkedbuildingdata.net/ldac2023/ (Link to event website)

Publication series

Name	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Publisher	RWTH Aachen University
Volume	3633
ISSN (Electronic)	1613-0073

Workshop

Workshop	11th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop
Abbreviated title	LDAC 2023
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Matera
Period	15/06/23 → 16/06/23
Internet address	https://linkedbuildingdata.net/ldac2023/ (Link to event website)

Keywords

Automated Compliance Checking
Knowledge Graph
Natural Language Processing
Linked Data

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Kruiper, R., Konstas, I., Gray, A. J. G., Sadeghineko, F., Watson, R., & Kumar, B. (2024). Taking stock: a Linked Data inventory of Compliance Checking terms derived from building regulations. In W. Terkaj, M. Poveda-Villalón, & P. Pauwels (Eds.), Proceedings of the 11th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop (pp. 222-237). (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 3633).

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Kruiper, R, Konstas, I, Gray, AJG, Sadeghineko, F, Watson, R & Kumar, B 2024, Taking stock: a Linked Data inventory of Compliance Checking terms derived from building regulations. in W Terkaj, M Poveda-Villalón & P Pauwels (eds), Proceedings of the 11th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, vol. 3633, pp. 222-237, 11th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop, Matera, Italy, 15/06/23.

Taking stock: a Linked Data inventory of Compliance Checking terms derived from building regulations. / Kruiper, Ruben; Konstas, Ioannis; Gray, Alasdair J.G. et al.
Proceedings of the 11th Linked Data in Architecture and Construction Workshop. ed. / Walter Terkaj; María Poveda-Villalón; Pieter Pauwels. 2024. p. 222-237 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Vol. 3633).

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Taking stock: a Linked Data inventory of Compliance Checking terms derived from building regulations

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