bringing digital curation to architects to promote innovation in the construction sector

Bringing Digital Curation to Architects to promote innovation

in the Construction sector

Dr Ruggero Lancia Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute University of Glasgow

Difficult times

Source: BD survey 2013

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Need for InnovationDesign Sustainability

Efficient Design and Building Collaboration

Feasible Buildings’ Lifecycle Management

Social Inclusion in Design Choices

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Digital Opportunities

PLM (Product Lifecycle Management)

Generative Design

Co-Design

Digital Fabrication

Digital Difficulties

Long-term Data Authoritativeness and Reliability

Perpetual Data Accessibility and Reusability

IPR Management

Extended Digital Workflows

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Digital Curation for Architecture practices

Digital Curation (Beagrie, 2008):"the actions needed to maintain digital [...] materials over their entire life-cycle and over time”.

Feasibility / Sustainability / Legal Management / Access / Reuse / Interpretation

Produce - Ingest - Enrich - Manage - Preserve - Dispose

Curatorial Actions implemented within Digital Design Workflows

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Commercial practices as partnersDIDECU (DIgital DEsign CUration) [2010-2011, First Step Award]

This knowledge exchange project was aimed at transferring curatorial competences and procedures to an Architecture practice while evaluating both the feasibility and the adequacy in a medium sized commercial context of the audit tools and methodologies, policies and requirements established by the

Digital Curation community. !

This investigation resulted in an audit of the data held, the infrastructure implemented and the procedures adopted by the project partner, complemented by their correlated risk assessment, and in a complete preservation plan detailing policies, requirements and suggested procedures tailored to the project partners'

procedural and technical context.

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Commercial practices as partnersDEDICATE (DEsign’s DIgital Curation for ArchiTecturE) [2013, AHRC]

This project investigated the requirements and procedures to build a common sustainable framework for the curation of Built Environment related data across

disciplines and professional contexts. !

This project gathered a select group of Scottish Architecture practices and Engineering consultancies as project partners. Their assets, creation and management procedures,

technical framework and standards compliances were audited. In particular, their digital assets underwent extensive characterisation analysis.

!For more information on all the activities of DEDICATE visit its website:

http://architecturedigitalcuration.blogspot.co.uk/

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ConclusionsDigital Technologies offer great opportunities for innovating the Construction sector (see also the political initiatives such as the 2016 Cabinet Office Construction Strategy).

Information Management / Digital Curation can support the renewal of business strategies, models and procedures in this sector.

Digital Curation competences might become part of both the Architects education and professional responsibilities.

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Thank you for your attention!

ruggero.Lancia@glasgow.ac.ukhttp://architecturedigitalcuration.blogspot.co.uk

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