Why should a company switch to the JSON Schemas of building-envelope-data?

[christoph-maurer]

Why should a company switch from a proprietary data format to the JSON Schemas of building-envelope-data?

[christoph-maurer]

Why JSON?

JSON is a very common format to exchange data. It is well suited for software developers. There are many powerful and free software packages to parse JSON and to use it in most programming languages directly as classes. It takes much more time to parse a file which uses a proprietary ASCII or CSV format.

Why JSON Schema?

JSON Schemas define the structure of the data. Software developers read JSON Schemas to understand the structure. Software developers can use JSON Schemas to validate whether a data set in JSON fulfills all requirements of the schema. This is important because all mistakes could lead to runtime errors of the software application.

Why the JSON Schemas of buildingenvelopedata.org?

First, they are available for free and don’t need to be developed. Second, they have been developed by an international cooperation of experts to include all data of optical measurements which is currently relevant. Third, they are recommended to manufacturers, associations and software companies to make the planning of building envelopes faster, easier and better. For this, a network of product databases was established. Planners should not have to search and handle product data manually. Their software applications should directly access the product data.