Knowledge Search

Posted by Lars Bjørkhaug on Jan 14, 2010 in Products | 0 comments

Knowledge search - intelligent and construction specific search engine Catenda is exploring the potential of IFD by developing KnowledgeSearch a semantic search engine powered by the buildingSMART library. The project was initially started as a proof-of-concept to show how IFD could help looking up relevant design details from SINTEF Byggforsk Building Design Sheets (Byggforskserien) from a Ifc based BIM. It then turned out that the technique used was a really elegant way of accesing a huge range of design details by drilling up or...