prEN ISO 21597

Information container for data drop (ICDD) prEN ISO 21597

Scope

This is a proposal to develop ISO/NP 21597 Information container for data drop (ICDD) in parallel in ISO and CEN under the Vienna Agreement.

This proposed ISO standard provides a data exchange and storage mechanism by means of a container or envelope for BIM related data/information which can be represented using multiple existing ISO-IEC standards.
The standard provides a semantic model comprising a small core information model which can be extended with reference information models and object libraries for specific domains.
Further support is provided for meta data notation and version management of exchanged data.
The standard provides functionality to integrate data structures which are a combination of RDF formatted, non geometric data structures and standardized geometric data structures like IFC and GML by deep linking to data structures of these types, object type libraries and non structured documents.
Doing so, the standard enables data drop as one information package with multiple data formats.
By using the mechanism of extensions with reference models, support can be added for various methods of version management including PLCS. Together with object type libraries, it offers capabilities to exchange data defined by information models that cover Systems Engineering, BIM, GIS and Life Cycle information management.
The elaboration of this standard will harvest the work done on COINS in NL and will include the existing examples of it.
The intended users and implementers of this standard includes software vendors and IT individuals, working in the field of buildings and infrastructure assets, offering software for procurement, design, construction, delivery, operation and maintenance. It also includes suppliers of project hotels and asset management databases.