LCABIM Ontology (LCA to BIM Workflow)

This repository hosts the published documentation and RDF serializations for the LCABIM ontology stack used in the LCA to BIM Workflow project.

Persistent namespace (recommended for citation and reuse)

Use the persistent IRIs under:

• https://w3id.org/lcabim/

These IRIs redirect to the currently hosted documentation and files.

Hosted documentation (current target)

The documentation site is published via GitHub Pages:

• https://design-computation-rwth.github.io/lcabim-ontology/

Ontology modules

The ontology is published as an umbrella/core ontology plus several modules:

• LCABIM Core (umbrella): https://w3id.org/lcabim/lcabimcore
• ILCD core schema (LinkML-generated): https://w3id.org/lcabim/ilcd
• DIN 276 cost groups: https://w3id.org/lcabim/din276
• ÖKOBAUDAT categories: https://w3id.org/lcabim/obd
• Concrete classes (derived): https://w3id.org/lcabim/concreteclass
• BKI element / layer model: https://w3id.org/lcabim/bki
• bSDD LCA indicators: https://w3id.org/lcabim/bsdd
• ILCD LCA indicators: https://w3id.org/lcabim/ilcdind

RDF downloads

Turtle files are published per module under the persistent namespace, e.g.:

• https://w3id.org/lcabim/lcabimcore/ontology.ttl
• https://w3id.org/lcabim/ilcd/ontology.ttl
• https://w3id.org/lcabim/din276/ontology.ttl
• https://w3id.org/lcabim/obd/ontology.ttl
• https://w3id.org/lcabim/concreteclass/ontology.ttl
• https://w3id.org/lcabim/bki/ontology.ttl
• https://w3id.org/lcabim/bsdd/ontology.ttl
• https://w3id.org/lcabim/ilcdind/ontology.ttl

How the documentation is generated

The module documentation pages are generated with WIDOCO (bilingual en/de) and published from the /docs folder using GitHub Pages.