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At its most basic level the design, construction and operations worlds’ data problem is that it needs to put all kinds of data together or at least reacting to all kinds of disparate data that others provide and then make new data from it. Those combinations are not static but need to be dynamic.
Composition is important because when looking broadly across buildings and infrastructure you see that no single entity ever creates the whole of any object or owns it all at anyone time.
Strange Matter was born out of the for composition both from the buildingSMART community for future versions of IFC but also the large community around the build environment that is looking for a modern flexible way to connect data.
Strange Matter is an open protocol for working with distributed, heterogeneous data used before, during, and after all phases of design, construction and operations of the of the built environment.
Strange matter is format, vendor, and tool agnostic.
It is a way for people, processes, and tools with different requirements working together on design and construction projects to collaborate on data that has distributed ownership, comes from different sources, and that is continuously changing.
Strange Matter does this by providing a universal abstract concept of entity. That is the thing that people care about (whether it is a particular building, floor, facade, column, roadway, pile, rail bed, asset, or whatever) and for which more or less data may be available to different stakeholders over different periods of time, authored in different pieces of software.
Actual data is organized in components and relationships. Components are JSON headers that refer to data payloads, which can be in any format a user or tool generates. Relationships are defined in the same way as components, just without payloads, and can describe any kind of semantic relation between two components. A relationship between a component and entity is done by sharing a relationship with an Entity ID component.
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