Re: Semantic Construction Product Data Community Group launched

The group's about statement is now available in StratML (ISO 17469-1) format at https://stratml.us/drybridge/index.htm#SCPDCG or, more specifically, https://stratml.us/docs/SCPDCG.xml

Tomorrow it will also be discoverable at https://search.aboutthem.info/
Owen Amburhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/owenambur/
 

    On Tuesday, June 10, 2025 at 08:34:48 AM EDT, public-council@w3.org <public-council@w3.org> wrote:   

 With your support, the Semantic Construction Product Data Community Group has been launched:
  https://www.w3.org/community/semantic-construction/

This group was originally proposed on 2025-06-03 by Baran Bacak.
The following people supported its creation:
  Victor Lu
  Jakob Deich
  Baran Bacak
  Selin Kalender Miran
  Sinan Erbay

To join the group, please use:
  https://www.w3.org/community/semantic-construction/join

Please note that supporting a group is different from joining
a group. Supporters must also enroll if they wish to participate.

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Product information in the construction industry today is highly fragmented—scattered across Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), BIM models (e.g., IFC), Product Data Templates (PDTs), CE markings, technical sheets, and sustainability labels. To support new regulatory and digital demands, this group seeks to develop shared ontologies and linked data patterns that unify such fragmented data.

The mission of this Community Group is therefore to define, structure, and promote future open semantic standards for digital construction product data, enabling interoperability, transparency, and automation across the construction sector.

#### Objectives

- Develop shared ontologies and data models (using OWL/RDF) for construction products
- Align with existing classification systems and standards such as IFC, eClass, CEN/ISO
- Create SHACL-based validation patterns for scenarios such as EPD compliance or CPR alignment
- Provide guidance for data providers via reference implementations and example datasets
- Enable use cases tied to DPPs, sustainability reporting, lifecycle analysis, and public procurement
 
#### Participation

The group welcomes in particular participants with these interests and skills:

- Architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) professionals
- Semantic web and knowledge graph developers
- Standards bodies and regulatory authorities
- Open data and digital transformation advocates
- Researchers working in BIM, LCA, EPDs, DPPs, and related fields
 
#### Deliverables

- Construction product ontology and linked data vocabulary
- SHACL validation patterns for compliance and reasoning
- Mappings to existing industrial standards (e.g., IFC, ISO 23386, ISO 22057)
- Use-case guides, RDF example datasets, and reference implementations
- Summary report or W3C Community Gropu Report
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Thank you,

W3C Community Development Team