Building information modeling – A game changer for interoperability and a chance for digital preservation of architectural data?

Digital data associated with the architectural design-andconstruction process is an essential resource alongside -and even past- the lifecycle of the construction object it describes. Despite this, digital architectural data remains to be largely neglected in digital preservation research – and vice versa, digital preservation is so far neglected in the design-and-construction process. In the last 5 years, Building Information Modeling (BIM) has seen a growing adoption in the architecture and construction domains, marking a large step towards much needed interoperability. The open standard IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) is one way in which data is exchanged in BIM processes. This paper presents a first digital preservation based look at BIM processes, highlighting the history and adoption of the methods as well as the open file format standard IFC (Industry Foundation Classes) as one way to store and preserve BIM data

Uniform and Robust Access to Resource Versions: Workshops and Tutorials - iPRES 2014 - Melbourne

The Memento protocol tightly integrates the Web of the Present and that of the Past, making it possible to seamlessly navigate between both. The protocol defines an interoperable approach to access versions of a resource in web archives or content management systems such as wikis that leverage the URI of that resource and the datetime of the required resource version. Technically, the Memento protocol is an extension of HTTP that is fully based on the primitives of Web interoperability: URIs, resource representations, links, content negotiation. The tutorial will give an in-depth insight in various aspects of the Memento protocol that meanwhile has been published as RFC 7089