Architectural RDM Pipeline

2026-2028 | Research Projects
German Research Foundation

Institute for Computational Design and Construction (Prof. Achim Menges)
The University and State Library Darmstadt, TU Darmstadt (Prof. Dr. Thomas Stäcker)

aRDM Pipeline

enabling FAIR and efficient architectural research data management

In contemporary research, access to structured data is becoming an increasingly crucial foundation for progress and innovation. In architectural research, data is the language to collect knowledge about the present and past built environment, but also the basis to develop innovative methods and technologies in the field of design and construction. Existing data about the built environment is rarely available and architectural researchers face technical and data literacy-related challenges in efficiently collecting such data as well as making it available to others as FAIR, structured data. This data is often inherently complex and of visual nature, representing the interdisciplinary domain knowledge, the diversity of the observed objects as well as their underlying sources.
Building on the NFDI4ING Seed Funds project RDM-Workflows for construction engineering and architecture, this project aims to develop an "Architectural Research Data Management Pipeline", a novel web application designed to help researchers transform and enrich their data into a linked knowledge graph using NFDI services. The Pipeline will offer tools to enhance data processing, visualisation, presentation, exploration, and FAIR publication, improving research efficiency and dataset quality in architectural research using quantitative comparative methods.

PROJECT TEAM

ICD Institute for Computational Design and Construction, University of Stuttgart

Hana Svatoš-Ražnjević, Dr. -Ing. Tobias Schwinn, Prof. A. Menges

Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek (ULB) Darmstadt, TU Darmstadt 

Stephan Tittel, Gerald Jagusch, Dr. Marc Fuhrmans, Prof. Dr. Thomas Stäcker

PROJECT FUNDING

German Research Foundation (DFG), Wissenschaftliche Literaturversorgungs- und Informationssysteme (LIS)

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Contact information

 

Institute for Computational Design and Construction

University of Stuttgart, Keplerstraße 11, 70174 Stuttgart

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