Tutorials

This page features video tutorials that explain how to use the BIM2RDF tool.

Tutorial 1: Connecting the BIM to Speckle

This tutorial uses a small office building as a working example to demonstrate the first step required to use BIM2RDF to create a semantic model - the connection of a Building Information Model (BIM) to Speckle, a commercially available BIM management tool. Speckle is used to organize BIM data in the required nested JSON format that BIM2RDF requires. The tutorial covers Speckle configuration options and dependencies on BIM organization. Autodesk Revit is used as the BIM tool for the purposes of this demo.

Tutorial.1.mp4

Tutorial 2: Creating and verifying the semantic model against ontology requirements

This tutorial demonstrates how nested JSON data from Speckle is mapped by BIM2RDF to the target ontology to produce a semantic model, how to verify whether the output semantic model meets ontology requirements, and how to troubleshoot and resolve verification issues.

Tutorial.2.mp4

Tutorial 3: Querying and validating the semantic model against use case needs

This tutorial demonstrates how to load a semantic model created from BIM2RDF into a graph database management tool and create SPARQL queries that validate that the semantic model meets use-case needs. GraphDB is used as the graph database management tool for the purposes of this demo.

Tutorial.3.mp4