Glossary

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D

DGN

File Format from Bentley, see Wikipedia

DXF

Data Exchange Format, File Format

DWG

File Format from AutoDesk, see Wikipedia

G

GUID

Globally Unique Identifier is a unique 128-bit number that is produced by an open algorithm, see Wikipedia

I

IAI

International Alliance for Interoperability, a non-for-profit, industry-led organization, that supports the development of the IFC specification.

IAI

Institut für Angewandte Informatik, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, see www.iai.fzk.de/ifc

IDM

Information Delivery Manual, specifies which information that should be exchanged between process at a certain stage in a buildings lifecycle, www.iai.no/idm

IFC

Industry Foundation Classes a neutral product data model for the construction and facility management industry, see Wikipedia and an overview (in German)

IFC version

release number of the IFC specification used for the exchange (*.ifc file, or data repository), official IFC releases include IFC1.5.1, IFC2.0, IFC2x, IFC2x2, IFC2x3

IFD

International Framework for Dictionaries - ontology framework for buildingSMART. http://www.ifd-library.org/ http://dev.ifd-library.org/

IFG project

Industry Foundation Classes for GIS, an IAI project to enable the CAD/GIS integration based on IFC, see www.iai.no/ifg/

ISG

Implementers Support Group --> more

K

KIT

Karlsruhe Institute for Technology, see Homepage

N

NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology

S

S+D-Pläne

Schlitz- und Durchbruchspläne

T

TGA

Technischen Gebäudeausrüstung

U

URL

Uniform Resource Locator, see Wikipedia

V

VDI 3805

Produktdatenaustausch in der TGA, see more

Views

Subset of the IFC model to facilitate a particular data exchange use case, current view definitions include the (Extended) Coordination View, the structural analysis view and other.

X

XML

Extensible Markup Language, see Wikipedia

Z

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