Points to CDBB…https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/files/gemini_how.pdf

In my view, the answer is, the closest we have is a plan to develop a plan (see above)

You can see in the image that there is an acknowledgement that there needs to be an interface…

A lot of the projects that I’m seeing as part of the Cyber Physical Infrastructure…

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at CDBB, our report on the start up space highlighted that companies at the ‘scale up’ phase were those that were being least well served, so this is well placed investment.

https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/news/get-started-start-ups

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@Timothy Stahle

Here’s the paper:

 https://www.cdbb.cam.ac.uk/news/publication-deepdish-multi-object-tracking-shelf-raspberry-pi 

Here’s the code:

https://github.com/AdaptiveCity/deepdish

 

What did you think of the episode @Humanner ? We spoke to someone who is quite sceptical about the possibility of social reform through digital twins. 

Our discussion with Adam and @Ian Gordon was a powerful and interesting one. 

Adam is deeply cynical and rightfully so that applying new technologies within existing governance structures without changing them. Ian is passionate about providing benefit across society. Me? Well I’m interested in how people think. Although Adam was c…

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Thanks both, I think that’s exactly right, tracing the lifecycle of an information requirement through this process gives it a clear rationale. I think it would be interesting to see the information management landscape within an organisation. To your point 1 and 2 @Matthew where these information flows might be consistent, one off or…

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Information Requirements are clearly key to unlocking value (of all kinds)in the lifecycle of assets. @Al_ and @Matthew I think the spatiotemporal approach in the space time diagram is a great idea. 

How do you think we can trace value but specifically for this question the return on investment from Information Requirements de…

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Thanks for sharing @Peter I always love a tree based analogy.. especially an Oak based analogy!

Hi @besse  the Digital Twin Toolkit can help with this, let us know if you need any more help

 

CDBB have asked both Atkins and Amelia Burnett of Clementine Consulting to undertake a collaborative piece of work to review the Digital Built Britain ‘Vision’ & ‘Roadmap’, as well as develop a ‘State of the Nation’ report. The aim being to reflect on the work to date, and provide an opportunity to update these elements in line with… Read more

I tend to agree with you Vladimir, because the last thing we need is mis-selling in this area in the way that we’ve seen BIM wash, but I know that Michael Grieves would argue that a virtual model for simulation purposes was the first digital twin at NASA (that was then used for managing the asset once it was in space).

So perhaps we’re in…

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Great response @RachelJudson  and thanks for the link. I’ve been doing some ontology work in my other life and I’m seeing the value of knowledge graphs and other diagrams like that when you have a deeply complex problem to solve. Which let’s face it, the idea of a national digital twin is. Hey, this post was intentionally contentious to promote…

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we’ve got the hub together coming up (our first) and with your permission/blessing I’d like to discuss what the digital twin community should be doing about issues like this

 

Once everyone’s had a chance to review the findings it would be interesting to investigate what this community could do about it. Thanks for sharing @Vicki!

As an adopted son I would think probably yes. Perhaps a digital twin of the rail network will be the thin end of the wedge.

At the end of the day, during Covid, rail travel isn’t making the money and some services need to exist whether they’re making money or not which let’s face it provides serious challenges for a private business.

 

On 20/10/2020 at 20:49, David Roberts said:

Digital Twins suffer from the same problem as Artificial Intelligence, as the English grammar goes the term is very simple and self-descriptive, but what it is trying to describe is very broad and complicated and so it just leads to an easy misuse of the term as it just “sounds” so sim…

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5 hours ago, Chris Dent said:

I hope to join the workshop, and indeed am just writing a blog post on the definitions of AI and DT.

My view is generally that trying to define what is and is not a DT is not a helpful pursuit, at least not in the kind of work I do, as it’s irrelevant in most practical questions. The relevant…

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@Neil now that I see it graphically it makes more sense

oh man this is big, I’ve skimmed it, but I’ll come back to it in earnest soon @Ian Gordon.

From my first pass the tone is right and it doesn’t read like policy statements of old that sought to write in stone eternal truths and irrefutable facts with thou shalts and orders from on high, but ultimately were trying to nail jelly to the wall.…

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I like the idea of gamifying @Steven , to me that means thinking about the ‘game loop’ of using a digital twin. We have looked at how digital twins data state is always changing, but I think more could be done to think about who is interacting with a digital twin and how in a granular fashion not just a business as usual digital twin, but…

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Predicting the future is something intrinsic to the human condition. Whether we are thinking about lunch, retirement, or developing a world-shaking invention like the iPhone.

What if the biggest barrier to realising the potential of innovation is not technology, but belief? Predictions of the future from the 1950s included people flying…

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