Abstract
Communication systems in the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry face many challenges. This paper proposes construction information and knowledge portal (CIKP), an information and knowledge-management system that utilizes three technologies to address the challenges in information exchange and knowledge sharing. First, a semantic web that is unlike typical data-exchange standards because ontologies present human knowledge in a machine-interpretable manner. This provides for more linguistic-friendly representation of tacit/subjective knowledge, which increases the level of human-friendliness of communication systems. Second, a social web, which links people (instead of documents) to create communities of practice (CoPs) and allows people to share, reconfigure, and generate knowledge. Finally, publish/subscribe (pub/sub) systems, which provide for a push-pull scenario for information exchange. In the proposed system, any knowledge item (KI) (e.g., a document, website, and blog) will b...
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