EN 17632-1:2022

Building information modelling (BIM) - Semantic modelling and linking (SML) - Part 1: Generic modelling patterns

EN 17632-1:2022

Name:EN 17632-1:2022   Standard name:Building information modelling (BIM) - Semantic modelling and linking (SML) - Part 1: Generic modelling patterns
Standard number:EN 17632-1:2022   language:English language
Release Date:06-Dec-2022   technical committee:CEN/TC 442 - Building Information Modelling (BIM)
Drafting committee:CEN/TC 442/WG 4 - Support Data Dictionaries   ICS number:35.240.67 - IT applications in building and construction industry

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-april-2023
Informacijsko modeliranje gradenj (BIM) - Semantični standard za modeliranje in
povezovanje (SML) - 1. del: Generični vzorci modeliranja
Building Information Modelling (BIM) - Semantic Modelling and Linking (SML) - Part 1:
Generic modelling patterns
Semantischer Modellierungs- und Verknüpfungsstandard (SMLS) für die
Datenintegration in der gebauten Umwelt
Modélisation d'informations de la construction (BIM) - Modélisation et liens sémantiques
(SML) - Partie 1 : Schémas de modélisation génériques
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 17632-1:2022
ICS:
35.240.67 Uporabniške rešitve IT v IT applications in building
gradbeništvu and construction industry
91.010.01 Gradbeništvo na splošno Construction industry in
general
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EN 17632-1
EUROPEAN STANDARD
NORME EUROPÉENNE
December 2022
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 35.240.67
English Version
Building information modelling (BIM) - Semantic
modelling and linking (SML) - Part 1: Generic modelling
patterns
Modélisation d'informations de la construction (BIM) - Semantischer Modellierungs- und
Modélisation et liaisons sémantiques (SML) - Partie 1 : Verknüpfungsstandard (SMLS) für die
Schémas de modélisation génériques Datenintegration in der gebauten Umwelt
This European Standard was approved by CEN on 12 September 2022.

CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this
European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references
concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre or to any CEN
member.
This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by
translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management
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Poland, Portugal, Republic of North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and
United Kingdom.
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worldwide for CEN national Members.

Contents Page
European foreword . 4
Introduction . 5
1 Scope . 6
2 Normative references . 7
3 Terms and definitions . 8
4 Symbols and abbreviated terms .11
4.1 Symbols .11
4.2 Abbreviated terms .11
5 Semantic modelling levels of capability .13
6 L1: Information language .14
6.1 Conceptual L1: Information language.14
6.2 Concrete L1: Information language bindings .16
6.3 Modelling patterns .19
7 M1: Information model .28
7.1 Top level information model .28
7.2 Systems engineering extension.30
8 Implementing SML in code .32
9 Conformance .32
9.1 General .32
9.2 Conformance on language level .32
9.3 Conformance on semantic level .33
Annex A (normative) SML implementation in ‘linked data’ .34
A.1 Introduction .34
A.2 SKOS part .34
A.3 RDFS part .40
A.4 OWL part .48
A.5 SHACL part .53
Annex B (normative) Selected W3C RDF language subsets .58
B.1 General .58
nd
B.2 XML schema (XSD), part 2: Datatypes 2 edition .58
B.3 Resource description framework (RDF).58
B.4 Simple knowledge organization system (SKOS) .59
B.5 Resource description framework schema (RDFS) .59
B.6 Web ontology language (OWL) .60
B.7 Shape constraint language (SHACL) .61
Annex C (informative) SML Example in SKOS/RDFS/OWL/SHACL (Turtle format) .64
C.1 Example description .64
C.2 SKOS part .64
C.3 RDFS part . 66
C.4 OWL part . 69
C.5 SHACL part . 70
C.6 Data part . 71
Annex D (informative) Relationships with other asset/product modelling standards . 73
D.1 General . 73
D.2 Relationship with the ISO 21597 series . 73
D.3 Relationship with EN ISO 23387 . 73
D.4 Relationship with the ISO 15926 series . 92
Annex E (informative) Linking information . 94
E.1 Types of linking . 94
E.2 Language-level language link sets . 94
Bibliography . 96

European foreword
This document (EN 17632-1:2022) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 422 “Building
information modelling (BIM)”, the secretariat of which is held by SN - Norway.
This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an
identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by June 2023, and conflicting national standards shall be
withdrawn at the latest by June 2023.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national standards body.
A complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CEN website.
According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organisations of the
following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia,
Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland,
Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of North
Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Türkiye and the United
Kingdom.
Introduction
This document is about the built environment. In the built environment, assets relating to buildings and
infrastructures need to be managed across their entire life cycle, involving programming, design,
construction, operation, modification and demolition or disassembly. Vast amounts of valuable
information about them are created or captured, stored and communicated according to a diverse range
of forms and structures - and often lost again.
To manage these projects and their resulting assets more efficiently and effectively, information needs to
be findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR). The world wide web consortium (W3C)
provides open and generic linked data (LD) and semantic web (SW) technologies [1] which are capable
of providing this ‘FAIRness’ giving information a common form (‘syntax’) and structure (‘semantics’).
Using the ‘new European Interoperability Framework’ (EIF) [9] terminology, this document focuses on
syntactic and semantic interoperability.
This document specifies how organizations in the built environment can apply this W3C technology to
best suit their needs. For example, it can be used within organizations to communicate information
internally between various business departments and software, or it can be used externally to publish
information across the multitude of databases and organizations in the sector.
Application of this document will in particular help to align and integrate relevant ‘modelling worlds’ for
the built environment, typically involving already existing complex information models, like in Building
Information Modelling (BIM), Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Systems Engineering (SE),
Monitoring & Control (M&C) and Electronic Document Management (EDM).
Regarding to BIM Building Information Modelling, this document has been prepared with the
EN ISO 16739-1 [11] Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) information model in mind, and it has been
aligned with the revision work of EN ISO 12006-3 [17] (used to extend IFC via a buildingSmart data
dictionary (bSDD)). More specifically, this document offers a ‘linked data’ view on the ‘data templates’
related to CEN TC442/WG4. It provides a way to represent the ‘attributes’ for ‘properties’ of
EN ISO 23386:2020 [15] implemented according to EN ISO 23387:2020 [16], again involving
EN ISO 12006-3.
As any other technical specification, this document requires expertise and experience in specifying,
procuring and delivering work results. As semantic modelling and linking is in the domain of computer
science, the content is aimed at those professionals. This document however, provides a standardized
approach for the built environment, and thus this introduction addresses the secto
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