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OMC 2010



THIS PAGE HAS BEEN UPDATED. Sept 12, 2010

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Further updates are likely.

Participants of the GeoWeb 2009 workshop on BIM processing using open-source programs [Workshop on Visual Mapping of BIM Data Augmented with XML Technology]  will see material relevant to the workshop attendance. Note that the workshop and all of the software is oriented  towards the Windows (XP) operating system usage.

Apple OS X and Linux can do these operations but they will not be covered in this workshop, only programs which are operating under Windows. It is NOT necessary to acquire Microsoft Excel if you do not already own it. OpenOffice.org (which is free of cost) may be used/obtained in its place if you feel a need to use a spreadsheet program in the Workshop.

It should be noted that you do not need to have all (or even any) of these programs installed on  your computer in order to attend the workshop. If you follow along the presentation discussion about the concepts  (in the workshop) then you can skip running programs on your laptop at the workshop altogether if you wish. You will still get the benefit of attending the wokshop.

There are a number of  programs and data sets shown as links (below) which a participant may obtain. All of these items are free of charge and are not time limited in functionality.



These are third party software and data sets.
Not owned by GeoWeb.

Any papers or workshops presented at GeoWeb conferences are owned by GeoWeb, available for purchase separately (from GeoWeb) or by paid attendance at the conference.
There is no free download available of those items.

What's on this page?
* Open Source Programs (from 3rd parties), relevant to 2009 Workshop.
* data sets, such as XML, KML, SVG, which are not being sold but have IP rights associated
* comments, some technical descriptions, and orientation information


There are no management overviews on this page, you have to have a certain minimum background in computing technology to make use of the content of this page, called 'the entry level'. There are myriad courses in many places that explain how to use these open source programs. It is up to you to understand or figure out any 'value' of the content of the things on this page.

The page will be updated with requisite technology knowledge level / 'background' for productive use of the concepts / data sets provided here. You will gain insight into the material by looking at other pages on this website. The website is about ontologies, robotics and other such things, only this page is constrained to geospatial and BIM  stuff.








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     Notepad++ .. This is very definitely NOT Microsoft Notepad.

sbut1.jpg       Protege/Owl, register to download Protege itself (free). Get the FULL version it has 15 plugins of interest.

sbut3.jpg      Pellet, it is a reasoning program. If you get FULL Protege first you do not need this download.

sbut8a2.JPG      Jena, it is a reasoning program. If you get FULL Protege first you do not need this download.

     SWRL, Semantic Web Rule Language. If you get FULL Protege first you do not need this download.

sbut1.jpg      SAXON B 9   XSLT , by Michael Kay, has XSLT extensions, works w/ Java, & your own eventhandlers *

sbut3.jpg      Firefox 3, built-in XSLT, SVG, Javascript (including E4X)

sbut3.jpg      XML Marker

sbut1.jpg       Processing (a general intra-file processing package)

sbut3.jpg       gbXML Schema --the Green Buildings XML schema for BIM

sbut1.jpg       Schematron --used for processing XML schemas

sbut3.jpg       Tcl/Tk --used for parsing and making GUIs

 sbut3.jpg       Java 6 (SDK)

sbut1.jpg       OpenOffice.org --Version 3.1.0, this is a free MS Office replacement, from Oracle/SUN









The tools above are free forever, they are not trial period items.

You might also look at Oxygen, a worthwhile tool to have. You might also have a look at XML SPY. They are commercial products, available via their respective sites.

* A decade ago I wrote an error-correcting XML parser using SAX, to read SEC documents some of which were 'broken' in various ways, including being not valid xml documents, having content occurring in sections where they are not supposed to be, having data that was expressed by other than what the schema said it should be. Kay's SAXON XSLT includes the capability for users to write their own parser eventhandlers (in Java). That means you can do things with SAXON XSLT where other XSLT systems using Schemas either reject a file or throw up their hands in incompetance. Is your (input) Geo-data always 100% perfect?

You will probably want to get a copy of each of the ontologies shown below, use the button on the left of each listed item. You can view your acquired ontology file using  either XML Marker or Notepad++ from the above selection group.  The ontologies below are free.  They are about geospatial/environmental domains not solely about BIM.







sbut1.jpg     http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/1.1/biosphere.owl

sbut1.jpg     http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/1.1/data.owl

sbut1.jpg     http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/1.1/earthrealm.owl

sbut1.jpg     http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/1.1/human_activities.owl

sbut1.jpg     http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/1.1/material_thing.owl

sbut1.jpg     http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/1.1/numerics.owl

sbut1.jpg     http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/1.1/phenomena.owl

sbut1.jpg     http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/1.1/process.owl

sbut1.jpg     http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/1.1/property.owl

sbut1.jpg     http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/1.1/space.owl

sbut1.jpg     http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/1.1/substance.owl

sbut1.jpg     http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/1.1/sunrealm.owl

sbut1.jpg     http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/1.1/time.owl

sbut1.jpg     http://sweet.jpl.nasa.gov/1.1/units.owl








 The data files are text (XML, RDF, RDFS, OWL), so if you cant download Notepad++ you might use
    Microsoft Notepad on a Windows machine to look at the files
    Kate (or Emacs, VI, Teco) on a Linux machine to look at the files
    the equivalent program on a MAC to look at the files

Get Firefox 3, it does decent autospacing and colouring for you with XML-type files and has a built-in parser.
 It can display SVG files, including SVG animated ones. It can run XSLT stylesheets, including those which can translate an XML data file into an SVG illustration, or either of these into a KML file. The KML file would be viewed with Google Earth. Firefox 3 can display (so-called) 3D files like X3D, VRML, KML. Firefox 3 works nicely with the DOM (Document Object Model) and FF3's Javascript (EcmaScript) includes E4X which speeds up XML file processing. [E4X uses object technology to represent text-based XML.]

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