Digital Interoperability for the Facilities Management Domain: a Review of Semantic Web-based ApproachesShow others and affiliations
2021 (English)In: Proceedings of the 38th International Conference of CIB W78, 2021, p. 956-965Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The use of Semantic Web-based Technologies (SWT) to support digital Facilities Management (FM) activities has been shown to address interoperability challenges between disciplinary stakeholders. By establishing shared understanding through ontologies, eliminating precarious file exchanges and democratising participation through non-proprietary technologies, SWTs are receiving growing interest from the research community. Despite this, no comprehensive review exists which analyses works with a specific focus on the FM domain. This paper reviews 35 academic works and provides a broad discussion around academic and industry initiatives in SWTs for the FM domain, identifying research gaps and future directions of interest. We find that SWTs are already being used by FM practitioners and that implementation is highly case-specific and thus, developments need to be flexible and user-oriented in their design. This work towards a comprehensive domain review provides a useful reference for others in the field as well as informing our own future research activities.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2021. p. 956-965
Series
Conference CIB W78 - LDAC 2021, ISSN 2706-6568 ; w78:2021
Keywords [en]
facilities management, digitalisation, interoperability, semantic web technologies
National Category
Computer Sciences
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-54854OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-54854DiVA, id: diva2:1603275
Conference
Joint Conference CIB W78 - LDAC 2021, 11-15 October 2021, Luxembourg
2021-10-152021-10-152025-10-13Bibliographically approved