Glasgow Wester Infirmary (GWI) is a maze offering numerous entrances! If you are afraid to get lost trying to reach the DEDICATE final seminar follow the suggested path in the plan below! We will be waiting for you, so, please, do not spend you morning queueing for unnecessary medical treatments in a remote GWI section!

If that's not enough for you, HERE you can find a map of the Glasgow University West End campus

We hope to see you soon at the DEDICATE event!

So, that's it! We are dangerously nearing the date of the DEDICATE final seminar! Did you already book your place at https://dedicate.eventbrite.co.uk?

I would like to thank all those who helped to promote the event! In particular, I would like to tank the friends from HDA - Hug Dutton Associés for the kind highlights offered to this event through their Facebook profile and the Glasgow Architecture News Letter and Website for featuring the seminar details.

Proprietary data formats, undisclosed specifications, partial standardisation, lack of adequate open formats, and the fast obsolescence of hardware, supporting operative systems and software are the major issues undermining both the data survival and reuse. Over-reliance on proprietary solutions, inadequate enrichment of assets with metadata, informal retention policies, idiosyncratic archival and management of data files are also important causes of information loss that occur just at the assets creation stage and that in some cases, such as in the AEC (Architecture Engineering Construction) sector determine economical damages even in the short term.

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Advanced Digital Design Practices and especially Digital Fabrication initiatives are highly experimental, often expensive, prone to risks and idiosyncratic in the procedures adopted. These characteristics render as difficult the implementation of controlled procedures as the very collaboration between practitioners and researchers, such as for example by having access to their data and observe their procedures.

In fact, despite the strong influence of the opensource culture on many digital architectural manufacturing initiatives, the consistency of procedures or data conservation, accessibility and reuse are often secondary with respect to the physical manifestation of the manufactured product. Though, the adoption of Information Management attentions for Digital Manufacturing are especially important because of key aspects of the CNC production such as processes repetition and data reuse across contexts and machines.

What specific difficulties and drawbacks are especially evident in the longterm management of Digital Fabrication data assets?

Installation of the HWFG pavilion and superimposed render of the entire structure.

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