Design and Evaluation of a Bim-Gis Integrated Information Model Using RDF Graph Database

Abstract

Abstract. The semantic integration modeling of BIM industry foundations classes and GIS City-geographic markup language are a milestone for many applications that involve both domains of knowledge. In this paper, we propose a system design architecture, and implementation of Extraction, Transformation and Loading (ETL) workflows of BIM and GIS model into RDF graph database model, these workflows were created from functional components and ontological frameworks supporting RDF SPARQL and graph databases Cypher query languages. This paper is about full understanding of whether RDF graph database is suitable for a BIM-GIS integrated information model, and it looks deeper into the assessment of translation workflows and evaluating performance metrics of a BIM-GIS integrated data model managed in an RDF graph database, the process requires designing and developing various pipelines of workflows with semantic tools in order to get the data and its structure into an appropriate format and demonstrate the potential of using RDF graph databases to integrate, manage and analyze information and relationships from both GIS and BIM models, the study also has introduced the concepts of Graph-Model occupancy indexes of nodes, attributes and relationships to measure queries outputs and giving insights on data richness and performance of the resulting BIM-GIS semantically integrated model.

Leveraging Standards in Model-Centric Geospatial Knowledge Graph Creation

“…Model-centric transformation approaches such as Extract-Transform-Load (ETL) data pipelines can use data models or schema to define or guide the transformation of heterogeneous urban data towards RDF and OWL [4,12] with some works proposing scalable data-lake integration solutions [15]. Similar to the data model transformations noted in section 2.1, the data format used to represent the underlying data models of the data to be transformed affects the structure of the output data.…”