An Approach for Identifying and Evaluating Opportunities Offered by Semantic Technology to BIM-Enabled Online Collaboration Platforms

Through a demonstrated attempt to identify and evaluate opportunities offered by semantic technology to Online Collaboration Platforms (OCPs), a context-specific requirements engineering process is developed and documented. Seven illustrative functionalities are proposed and evaluation of their demand and feasibility has indicated potential challenges such as access to data from other projects, the need for controlled workflows and the utility of standard data models. The approach can be developed to evaluate technical feasibility as well to ultimately characterize the natural contribution of semantic technology to OCPs.