conSolid: a web-based ecosystem for managing distributed building data
The conSolid project, funded by FWO Flanders, facilitates the setup of web-based building models that integrate architectural, historical, geospatial and operational information in a machine-readable way. In order to achieve this, the project relies on Semantic Web technologies, open standards and established data models. The Solid project, initiated by Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the Web, is taken as a basis: an open, web-based ecosystem where data is separated from the applications that use it, to facilitate modular applications with different perspectives on the same 'distributed' model. In conSolid, these perspectives are offered by the many disciplines directly and indirectly concerned with the built environment; the distributed model being the collaborative effort of many specialists connecting their knowledge.
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Research group: Digital Design
Academic year: 2019 / 2020
Staff: Jeroen Werbrouck, Pieter Pauwels