Hi,
BuildingSmart has this "crowdsourced" translation project going on https://buildingsmart.crowdin.com/ifc.
In some countries like Finland there's an overlapping public Sanastot -vocabulary work ongoing as open project too. In some this "voluntary/ open source" work is done by government body, in some by local BuildingSmart.
Once further, the bsDD work enables to load translations of IFC contents as a " (bsDD) library" to software/solution. For example to Archicad+MEP Designer if support for it would be implemented.
This would enormously benefit the everyday use of objects and IFC, with local language, naming conventions and content support.
It would also take burden from GS as Archicad, MEP, localizations would benefit from market contribution too.
So, vote for this one, please!
-Ville
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