[bsp-forum] Notes from Meeting

["Deborah MacPherson" <debmacp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David, Bob, Michelle, Rex, Toby, Alan and Kimon -

Notes from meeting with Bob are here. Also, I moved the MapLabFPML folder into this new folder for the floorplans. I ran out of time to clean these up today and would rather not delay sending, apologize for the mess. Explanations by page are:

Page 1

Top Middle - we talked about the IFC's where a computer screen is divided showing an item like a wall duct, clicking on the item displays all the information about that item on the right side. Bob's company, SemTalk, has a Visual Semantic Editor that is similar. 

Top Left - The idea of building geometry being used to control role based access

Top Right - The Floorplan Markup Language process could follow the AGCXML process with buildingSMART alliance. (pg 2) AGCXML process included basically a glossary and 2 or 3 documents, there is not an ontology.

Page 2

Domain Map showing overlapping interests BSP, OASIS, NIST BFRL, IRSC, Environmental Assessment. Would like to work on this more with a better computer using BIM so the objects could have properties.

Need to define time frame and deliverables. When is the NIST follow up workshop and what are the ideal deliverables for that? 

Essentially there are 2 parts: the first is the emergency response floorplan effort, after that is an adaptation of the same information flow techniques for environmental assessment. The proposal now could touch on next tasks, and should explain the position on open versus proprietary. 

There is a question about who proposal(s) would be to. For example, the Construction Management at Risk Company involved in the NYC workshop in February is like a future customer or client who could benefit from the work and provide sponsorship. Same with buildingSMART alliance and David's contacts in California. Need to define a set of such organizations to explain the benefit of the work in terms they can understand and can see the potential. 

Page 3

A chart for the domain map to be produced. The left column is proprietary and includes software such as Flash and Revit, the right side is open including standards development work such as NIST. The BIM coop and OPS are a hybrid of both. BSP and IRSC lean more open. The middle 3 columns are where people are interested in solving problems and demonstrating novel ideas. It is historically very difficult to get funding for these middle columns. However, this may be changing due to the business use cases that could be made, eventually to be embedded as open standards in commercial software. More customers and clients are beginning to understand this. 

Each person has symbols to indicate their area of interest and expertise. People who have been involved in BIMstorm are colored orange, people who need money or equipment sooner rather than later (IE phase 1 the floorplans) are circled. We need to have a discussion about what each person needs in terms of support and the number of hours available to commit to the work of the floorplan project so a realistic proposal can be developed. 

Page 4

A discussion about the principles of architectural specifications versus the drawings. The specifications only discuss a subject one time in one place, the drawings show all the places these items show up (for example bricks, or standpipes, or equipment). Also talked about contract document language and the fact only certain blanks are filled in, most of the language stays the same on most contracts. Ideally, the static floorplans are similar, the underlying/held together/supportable information is fixed, the dynamic information such as an alert are overlaid. An agent makes connections between these following the rules to be specified. "if this" "then that" situations may be able to be easily shown using David Cox Flipp Explainers at this early stage. The objective is to get the rules into XML serialization. 

Page 5

Focusing on EDXL and demonstration potential through remote collaboration like BIMstorm to achieve a Common Operating Picture. If the NIST BFRL scenario is like the demo to be undertaken in NYC in February (talked to him on the phone, said would follow up with more information), and there is interest from the San Francisco Fire Department, and BFRL is already working with Montgomery Fairfax County Fire Departments, maybe there could be a multi-location exercise based on the scenario and after action reports from real fires. The goals are:

1. Tie together the information classes and exchange requirements needed

2. Collide through real time exchange to identify fail points and refine the functions. 

The first part should be to answer a couple simple questions. The second will result in improvements for discussions which can be tried later. As time goes on, the focus will be on 10 building types, this one is Fire Stations not literally as a building themselves, but the buildings they serve. 

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Deborah L. MacPherson CSI CCS, AIA
Projects Director, Accuracy&Aesthetics
Specifications and Research, WDG Architecture

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