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Building Product Modelling Using Relational Databases, Hypermedia Software and CAD Systems *
Author(s) -
Björk BoChrister,
Penttilä Hannu
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
computer‐aided civil and infrastructure engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.773
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1467-8667
pISSN - 1093-9687
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8667.1991.tb00258.x
Subject(s) - computer science , data model (gis) , relational database , database , software engineering , software , hypermedia , product (mathematics) , data modeling , object (grammar) , cad , world wide web , engineering drawing , programming language , engineering , artificial intelligence , geometry , mathematics
A framework for a national building product data model standard, the RA TAS‐model, was proposed in an industry‐wide cooperation project in Finland in 1987. The model structures the information describing a building using an object‐oriented semantic data model. In follow‐up projects a number of prototypes have been developed using different software tools. These prototypes have aimed at illustrating the potential of the product data model approach for facilitating data exchange between heterogeneous computing applications in construction, as well as at testing the implementation of the data structures (attributes, object classes, relationships between objects) of the product data models. The prototypes have been based on relational databases, hypermedia software, CAD‐systems and combinations of these.