[TIKA-1220] Parser implementration for IFC files

• Type: New Feature
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Fix Version/s: 1.17, 2.0.0-BETA, 2.1.0
• Component/s: parser
• Labels: new-parser
• Assignee: Lewis John McGibbney
• Reporter: Lewis John McGibbney
• Created: 14/Jan/14 23:15
• Updated: 17/Aug/21 13:30

Description

The Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) [0] data model is intended to describe building and construction industry data. For the sake of argument, it can be considered as a more intelligent successor to the .dwg data models used within CAD models.

I've tracked down a potential 3rd party library [1] which we maybe able to wrap and use within Tika however the provided software packages are licensed under: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/de/ so I am currently over on legal-discuss@ in an attempt to see if it is possible to wrap some code and contribute it to tika-parsers.

When I get feedback from legal-discuss, and if this is a go-ahead, I'll need to help the developers package the code as a Maven artifact(s), then I will progress with writing the implementation.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industry_Foundation_Classes
[1] http://www.ifctoolsproject.com/