Industry Foundation Classes

Open data schema and file formats for BIM, standardized as ISO 16739-1 (buildingSMART)
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Industry Foundation Classes

Summary

Industry Foundation Classes is a file format[1]. It draws 124 Wikipedia views per month (file_format category, ranking #70 of 297).[2]

Key Facts

  • Industry Foundation Classes's image is recorded as IAI Logo.jpg[3].
  • Industry Foundation Classes's instance of is recorded as file format[4].
  • Industry Foundation Classes's instance of is recorded as technical standard[5].
  • Industry Foundation Classes's has use is recorded as 3D computer graphics[6].
  • Industry Foundation Classes's ISO standard is recorded as 16739:2018[7].
  • Industry Foundation Classes's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/04bj1f[8].
  • Industry Foundation Classes's official website is recorded as https://www.buildingsmart.org/standards/bsi-standards/industry-foundation-classes[9].
  • Industry Foundation Classes's main subject is recorded as building information modeling[10].
  • Industry Foundation Classes's main subject is recorded as AEC industry[11].
  • Industry Foundation Classes's described at URL is recorded as https://technical.buildingsmart.org/standards/ifc/ifc-schema-specifications[12].
  • Industry Foundation Classes's media type is recorded as application/octet-stream[13].
  • Industry Foundation Classes's file extension is recorded as ifc[14].
  • Industry Foundation Classes's file extension is recorded as ifcXML[15].
  • Industry Foundation Classes's file extension is recorded as ifczip[16].
  • Industry Foundation Classes's PRONOM file format ID is recorded as fmt/700[17].
  • Industry Foundation Classes's PRONOM file format ID is recorded as fmt/659[18].
  • Industry Foundation Classes's PRONOM file format ID is recorded as fmt/699[19].
  • Industry Foundation Classes's PRONOM file format ID is recorded as fmt/663[20].
  • Industry Foundation Classes's Wolfram Language entity code is recorded as Entity["FileFormat", "IFC-1"][21].
  • Industry Foundation Classes's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 2779682955[22].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include file format[4] and technical standard[5].

Why It Matters

Industry Foundation Classes draws 124 Wikipedia views per month (file_format category, ranking #70 of 297).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 16 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[23] It is known by 5 alternative names across languages and contexts.[24]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . buildingsmart.org. buildingsmart.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . buildingsmart.org. buildingsmart.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . technical.buildingsmart.org. technical.buildingsmart.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . datatypes.net. Retrieved . datatypes.net. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [23] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [24] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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