How the BIM Dictionary works

The BIM Dictionary is curated, not crowdsourced. Its operating model is deliberate:

An agent proposes, a human curates, and nothing is ever auto-merged.

Candidate terms are drafted — by the dictionary's own agent or by partner applications — into a review backlog. A nominated curator reviews each one and decides whether to admit it. Only that human review promotes a candidate to a canonical term, and every admission is recorded with its provenance.

What stays fixed

• Mint once, never rename. A term's identifier is permanent; relabelling changes the label, not the identity.
• Identity is neutral. Language and jurisdiction are ways of presenting a term, not part of what it is; register is a property, never part of the identifier.
• One source of truth. Consumers take a versioned snapshot; the dictionary is never a live dependency.

Want to suggest a term or a correction?

This is not an open wiki — suggestions reach the dictionary through its curators. Get in touch and we will route it into the review backlog.