Standardised process for the sharing of product data
I see this a lot in the construction industry , a committee wants standardisation. The BIM Task Group in association with the Construction Products Association , BIM4M2 and CIBSE are looking to develop a standardised process for the sharing of product data , You have to ask why, does it not go against the very nature of the development of big data, what Hadoop , Hana and all the other new ways to view and analyse large datasets, which I might add do not need standardisation, rather the opposite. Large projects need to establish data use before it gets to site, develop rules to show how relations are make and kept, data shared, looking to associations for advice not rules, but thats for an individual project, and it may change as new projects are started, adding the benefits of hind sight and advances seen in the industry, but thats for a good project team to sort out, not a committee. I sit back an wonder who is pushing for this a...