BS ISO 8000-2:2020

Data quality Part 2: Vocabulary ISO 8000 is an emerging technology standard for organizations that want to improve business processes and control operating costs throughout the product life cycle from conception to disposal. The ISO 8000 principles can be applied to leverage the ability to create, collect, store, maintain, transfer, process, and present data quickly […]

Miller’s law

Argument introduced by Miller, G. A., suggests that the number of objects an average human can hold in short-term memory is 7 ± 2.[1] From a practical standpoint, this means that information designed for quick perception must contain no more than 9 elements @ each level, when planning strategy, workflow, process map, container strategy etc. […]

BS EN ISO 21597-2:2020

Information container for linked document delivery. Exchange specification. Link types

data

It is best to define “data” in the context of “information”. Data is the evidence, while information provides context for that evidence. Data is a very complex term to define because it does not exist independently of the ideas, instruments, practices, context, and knowledge used to generate, process, and analyse it. However, many accept that […]

Federated Information Model

Information Model consisting of connected but distinct individual Information Models. [1] A model is federated when two or more of the discipline models are electronically shared into the architectural model in order to: show context; supporting documentation and views of the design intent perform analyses; provide other visual comparisons; and to verify proper integration and […]

Conformance Class

Conformance class allows establishing relations from the information model of BS EN 82045-2 to any other object of relevance available information model. For example, the Project Information Model (PIM) Conformance class identifies the extent with respect to the reference information model, and the associated metadata elements. Conformance Class identify whether the information model meets a […]

Open Data

The Open Data Institute (ODI) defines open data as information that is licensed for anyone to use for any purpose at no cost. Open data can be accessed, used and shared by anyone and is not subject to restrictions, licence, copyright, patents and charges for access or reuse. The institute believes industries will benefit from […]

data aggregation

Data aggregation refers to a process that involves gathering information and expressing it in summary form for statistical analysis or other purposes. In many cases, data aggregation is exclusively done to get more information about particular data sets based on explicit variables such as issue type, weather, stakeholder etc. In relation to BIM and Digital […]

ontology

An ontology is a set of rules that make it possible to link data on a semantic level. Means the unstructured, semi-structured data can be read and encoded by computers.