September 28, 2009—The Building Owners and Managers Institute International (BOMI) has formed a partnership with the IFMA Foundation to bring a wiki-like Web-based glossary of building terms to members of the building industry.
FMpedia is largely modeled on the Wikipedia model, the organizations say, and are a dynamic, real time, open, Internet-based glossary where contributors are welcome to add new FM terms and definitions, and comment on existing ones. It is meant to be as broad and international as possible. The glossary is non-commercial, supported by the IFMA Foundation, and contains no product endorsements or paid sponsors.
BOMI will merge its 343-page Dictionary of the Built Environment, consisting of more than 4,500 terms, with the existing FMPedia, an on-line glossary for the facility management industry developed by the IFMA Foundation.
BOMI’s contribution will amount to a 300 percent growth in the number of definitions currently available through FMPedia. The format will allow viewers to comment on individual entries and will standardize definitions of terms used in the international building and facility management professions.
FMPedia is freely available to the entire FM community. The process of merging BOMI’s dictionary into the FMPedia database is expected to be completed by the end of November.
For more information, see the BOMI Web site.
