Preface OGC Web Services Architecture for CAD GIS and BIM

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i. Preface

This document lists the design principles and requirements for future versions of a potential architecture for integrating workflows and information models from Computer Aided Design and Building Information Modelling with the principles of the OGC Web Services Architecture. Refer to the latest version of the OGS Web Services CAD GIS and BIM CGB Interoperability Program Report IPR document for additional details. This section describes the status of this document at the time of its publication. Other documents may supersede this document. The latest status of this document series is maintained on the OGC website. This is an OGC IPR for review by OGC members and other interested parties. It is a working draft document and may be updated, replaced by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use OGC Draft IPRs as reference material or to cite them as other than “work in progress.” This is work in progress and does not imply endorsement by the OGC membership. Initial research and development of this document was performed as part of the CAD GIS BIM thread of the OGC Interoperability Program OGC Web Services Phase 4 OWS-4 initiative. The authors of this document are also OGC 3D Information Management 3DIM Working Group members. ii. Submitting organizations This Interoperability Program Report is being submitted to the OGC Interoperability Program by the following organizations: Harvard University Graduate School of Design Bentley Systems, Inc. Onuma Inc. Hasso-Plattner Institute 5 AEC3 Technical University of Berlin Snowflake Software LatLon iii. Document contributor contact points All questions regarding this document should be directed to the editor or the contributors: CONTACT COMPANY EMAIL Paul Cote Harvard University pbcotegsd.harvard.edu Eddie Curtis Snowflake Software eddie.curtissnowflakesoftware.co.uk Thomas Dalbert Onuma Inc dalbertonuma.com Jens Fitzke LatLon Jens Fitzke fitzkelat-lon.de Benjamin Hagedorn Hasso-Platner Institute Benjamin.Hagedornstudent.hpi.uni- potsdam.de Thomas Kolbe Technical University of Berlin kolbeigg.tu-berlin.de Alain Lapierre Bentley Systems, Inc. Alain.Lapierrebentley.com Thomas Liebich AEC3 tlaec3.de Mike McSween Bentley Systems, Inc. Mike.McSweenbentley.com Kimon Onuma Onuma Inc koonuma.com Ian Painter Snowflake Software Ian.Paintersnowflakesoftware.co.uk Jeff Wix AEC3 jeffrey.wixaec3.com iv. Revision history Date Release Author Paragraph modified Description January 17 2007 0.1 Cote Full Draft Circulated for amendmentrevision January 30, 2007 0.2 Hagedorn Annex B Added February 8 2007 0.2 Cote, et al many Many comments and amendments merged February 11, 2007 1 Cote, et al all More comments integrated 6 Copyright © 2007 Open Geospatial Consortium. All Rights Reserved April 15, 2007 R1 Cote Figures 1, Figure 4 Diagrams added 43007 0.9 Carl Reed Numerous Get document ready for posting as DP

v. Future Work