Getting Started with OpenConstruction

Welcome to OpenConstruction. This short orientation will help you understand how the platform is organized before you explore individual features.

Start on the homepage. This is the front door of OpenConstruction and the place to see the main resource areas at a glance.

You can search across resources from the homepage. The search experience helps you quickly find datasets, models, workflows, and educational resources.

Use the catalogs when you want to browse reusable resources directly. OpenConstruction catalogs include datasets, models, workflows, and open educational resources.

Within each catalog, you can search, filter, and browse resources. Open a detailed record to learn more about a resource and access its original source.

Before using a dataset, review its license and access terms. On the dataset detail page, click the checkbox to confirm that you have reviewed the terms.

Open Insights to understand the broader landscape of AEC data, models, tasks, and performance. Analytics provides a high-level view of patterns across tasks and applications, datasets and models, data modalities, license information, geographic coverage, and catalog growth over time.

Use the Benchmark Explorer when you want to examine evaluation evidence more closely. Browse benchmark tasks and applications, identify associated datasets and models, and inspect reported performance results.

Use Learn when you need guidance on how to use OpenConstruction or want to better understand its standards and practices. The Tutorial area provides short walkthrough videos for common tasks, including finding resources, submitting contributions, and reporting issues.

The Documentation area provides more detailed guidance, including the OpenConstruction metadata schema, guides and frameworks, contribution guidelines, policies, references, and other technical documentation.

Workspace is the interactive part of OpenConstruction. After signing in, you can save resources, organize them into collections, add notes, compare candidates, and export what you have gathered. Select Log in to access your account and personalized workspace.

Use Contribute when you want to add a new resource, improve an existing record, report a correction, or help steward the ecosystem. OpenConstruction is designed not only for discovering open resources, but also for improving and maintaining them collaboratively.