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  • 1.  open standards, IAI and W3C

    Posted 05-31-2011 04:10 PM
    to the TAP community-

    I wonder if a discussion on the comparison between the open standards of the web community (W3C) and the BIM community (IAI) would be of interest to this group?

    from the buildingSMART website, their mission is to be "a neutral, international and unique organization supporting open BIM through the life cycle."   Their goals and plans are expressed here.

    Of a similar nature, the W3C's mission is "Web for all: The social value of the Web is that it enables human communication, commerce, and opportunities to share knowledge. One of W3C's primary goals is to make these benefits available to all people, whatever their hardware, software, network infrastructure, native language, culture, geographical location, or physical or mental ability."

    Are there things we could learn from the web development community that could help us be more effective at specifying interoperability when we work with our software vendors? 

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    Marty Doscher Assoc. AIA
    Owner
    SYNTHESIS Technology Integration, LLC
    Venice CA
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  • 2.  RE:open standards, IAI and W3C

    Posted 06-01-2011 02:02 AM
    I hope it would be of interest to BIM software developers. Web friendly BIM could be very valuable, to connect vendors, regulatory agencies, designers, engineers, builders, owners, managers. Something on the order xml tags for attribute fields like cost, area, u-value, ghg, etc.

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    Thomas Gallemore AIA
    Elevation Design + Architecture
    Berkeley CA
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