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06016336 Rezgui, Yacine Boddy, Stefan Wetherill, Matthew Cooper, Grahame Past, present and future of information and knowledge sharing in the construction industry: towards semantic service-based e-construction? Comput.-Aided Des. 43, No. 5, 502-515 (2011). 2011 Elsevier Science, Oxford EN product data technology STEP (ISO 10303) IFC BIM ontology CAD web service e-process

doi:10.1016/j.cad.2009.06.005

Summary: The paper reviews product data technology initiatives in the construction sector and provides a synthesis of related ICT industry needs. A comparison between (a) the data centric characteristics of Product Data Technology (PDT) and (b) ontology with a focus on semantics, is given, highlighting the pros and cons of each approach. The paper advocates the migration from data-centric application integration to ontology-based business process support, and proposes inter-enterprise collaboration architectures and frameworks based on semantic services, underpinned by ontology-based knowledge structures. The paper discusses the main reasons behind the low industry take up of product data technology, and proposes a preliminary roadmap for the wide industry diffusion of the proposed approach. In this respect, the paper stresses the value of adopting alliance-based modes of operation.