Open AccessIncreasing information feed in the process of structural steel design
Author(s) -
Pieter Pauwels,
Thibaut Jonckheere,
Ronald De Meyer,
J. Van Campenhout
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
sustainable construction and design
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2295-9092
pISSN - 2032-7471
DOI - 10.21825/scad.v2i2.20514
Subject(s) - reuse , computer science , context (archaeology) , process (computing) , architectural design , design process , architectural engineering , engineering , knowledge management , world wide web , architecture , work in process , art , paleontology , operations management , waste management , visual arts , biology , operating system
Research initiatives throughout history have shown how a designer typically makes associationsand references to a vast amount of knowledge based on experiences to make decisions. With theincreasing usage of information systems in our everyday lives, one might imagine an information systemthat provides designers access to the ‘architectural memories’ of other architectural designers during thedesign process, in addition to their own physical architectural memory. In this paper, we discuss how theincreased adoption of semantic web technologies might advance this idea. We investigate to what extentinformation can be described with these technologies in the context of structural steel design. Thisinvestigation indicates possibilities regarding information reuse in the process of structural steel design and,by extent, in other design contexts as well.