Along with the national and international movements to realize the electronic commerce, large amount of architectural information has been converted into digital format and stored in database systems. However the access and utilization of the informat...
Along with the national and international movements to realize the electronic commerce, large amount of architectural information has been converted into digital format and stored in database systems. However the access and utilization of the information is not effective enough. It is because different terminologies are often used for describing the same object in architectural engineering. Furthermore the relationship among related objects is not captured effectively in the databases. In this paper, we utilize the relationship among architectural terminologies in order to search architectural drawings effectively. The relationship is saved in a ontology database and a prototype of search system that utilizes the relationship is presented in this paper.