From static to dynamic information containers

Abstract: In today’s fast-paced construction industry, collaboration is crucial for success. The Information Container for Linked Document Delivery (ICDD) is one of the efforts being made to support collaboration. It is used to store and exchange semantically linked heterogeneous application models. However, it is a static information container, which complicates synchronizing processes. In this paper, we propose an approach that enhances information container implementation with dynamic features by automatically updating the linksets whenever a new document version is added to the container. This feature is expected to expand workability of the ICDD and enhance its usefulness beyond pure data exchange.