Food4Rhino

RIM — Research Information Model

RIM is the research-grade data backbone, a digital lab or framework that mirrors BIM principles for the lab and computational pipeline. It provides a structured, versioned, and queryable home for models, materials, processes, experiments, and results—so teams can store, link, reproduce, and share their work with confidence. The architecture supports:

• PD-RDI data model (parametric, design-driven research data infrastructure): objects for products, components, materials, processes, experiments, and runs.
• Versioned storage & provenance across database domains.
• Lifecycle integration: LCA, cost, and production data live alongside geometry, parameters, and results—ready for dashboards and reports.
• Collaboration & access: consistent namespaces, groupings, and (optional) access policy.
• Reproducibility & audit: every asset/runsheet/optimizer campaign from MOET lands in RIM with inputs, versions, and outputs linked end-to-end.

In short: RIM is the research information model, a digital lab or framework for your project—organizing data, versions, and provenance so work stays findable, comparable, and reproducible.

The project was developed as part of the research project funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) in the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre CRC/TRR 280 “Design Strategies for Material-Minimized Carbon-Reinforced Concrete Structures—Principles of a New Approach to Construction” (project ID 417002380). The authors greatly acknowledge the funding foundation and all the participants of the project who helped in development of the RIM framework.