Simon Fischer, Harald Urban, Christian Schranz and Gerhard Zucker published a paper on the generation of information delivery specifications from conventional tabular information requirements in the scientific journal “Buildings”.
IDS is an open standard for defining information requirements for BIM models. IDS is quickly establishing itself in the openBIM community, but its potential is rarely exploited. In practice, the required characteristics per class are traditionally defined in tabular form. However, IDS offers far more options for defining both the requirements themselves and the affected elements more specifically. The difference between the hierarchical form of IDS and the classical tabular form of information requirements has so far limited the utilization of the potential of IDS. This paper presents a concept that bridges the gap between these two structures. Starting from the classic table form, the table is expanded step by step. The logic of the classic table is retained, whereby the new structure enables both simple feature definitions and the full functionality of IDS.
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