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The mission of this Community Group is to explore and define technologies, best practices, and tools for managing dynamic configuration data in the domains where dynamic updates and validation are primary concerns.
Semantic Construction Product Data Community Group
Proposed on 3 June 2025(2 sponsors)
Product information in the construction industry today is highly fragmented—scattered across Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), BIM models (e.g., IFC), Product Data Templates (PDTs), CE markings, technical sheets, and sustainability labels. To support new regulatory and digital demands, this group seeks to develop shared ontologies and linked data patterns that unify such fragmented data.
The mission of this Community Group is therefore to define, structure, and promote future open semantic standards for digital construction product data, enabling interoperability, transparency, and automation across the construction sector.
Objectives
Develop shared ontologies and data models (using OWL/RDF) for construction products
Align with existing classification systems and standards such as IFC, eClass, CEN/ISO
Create SHACL-based validation patterns for scenarios such as EPD compliance or CPR alignment
Provide guidance for data providers via reference implementations and example datasets
Enable use cases tied to DPPs, sustainability reporting, lifecycle analysis, and public procurement
Participation
The group welcomes in particular participants with these interests and skills:
Architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals
Semantic web and knowledge graph developers
Standards bodies and regulatory authorities
Open data and digital transformation advocates
Researchers working in BIM, LCA, EPDs, DPPs, and related fields
Deliverables
Construction product ontology and linked data vocabulary
SHACL validation patterns for compliance and reasoning
Mappings to existing industrial standards (e.g., IFC, ISO 23386, ISO 22057)
Use-case guides, RDF example datasets, and reference implementations