A Framework for Visualizing Heterogeneous Construction Data Using Semantic Web Standards

Table 1

A summary of the characteristics of three developed visualization engines.

	Visualizer
	Pipe manufacturing	Earthmoving	DON
Coupled to a specific case	Yes	Yes	Relatively, it works with distributed simulations with a specific FOM
Underlaying visualization engine	Open source engine	Built from scratch	Open source engine
Ability to display different scenarios	Requires rerunning the simulation	Requires rerunning the simulation	Requires rerunning the simulation
Ability to visualize different domains	No	No	Requires a new setup for this domain
Merge new data source	Has to be merged with the simulation	Has to be merged with the simulation	Has to be merged with the simulation
Querying	No	No	No