# Serializations **URL:** https://forums.buildingsmart.org/c/developers/serializations/44.md [Latest](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/latest.md) · [Categories](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/categories.md) · [Tags](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/tags.md) --- ## [About the Serialization category](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/about-the-serialization-category/88)
**Author:** [@jwouellette](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/u/jwouellette)\ **Replies:** 0
A category for the discussion of IFC schema serializations (e.g. STP, XML, JSON, TTL, RDF, etc.). --- ## [IFC for relational databases - ifcSQL](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/ifc-for-relational-databases-ifcsql/1524)
**Author:** [@bsbock](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/u/bsbock)\ **Replies:** 31\ **Last updated:** [June 29, 2024, 1:59pm UTC](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/ifc-for-relational-databases-ifcsql/1524 "2024-06-29T13:59:56Z")
The idea behind storing IFC-data in a database: What could be a way to store IFC-data in a relational database? Strategy no. 1: Store every IFC-File in a binary large object field. (-) no advantage over files (-) … --- ## [Where to access OWL serialization of the IFC 4.3?](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/where-to-access-owl-serialization-of-the-ifc-4-3/5296)
**Author:** [@marinljuban](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/u/marinljuban)\ **Replies:** 2\ **Last updated:** [April 15, 2024, 12:12pm UTC](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/where-to-access-owl-serialization-of-the-ifc-4-3/5296 "2024-04-15T12:12:05Z")
Hi everyone, there were news recently that the OWL serialization of the IFC 4.3 is available. I expected it to be published as the prior version in one easily reachable TTL file. IFC 4.3 is however published in more d… --- ## [STEP Exponential Number format](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/step-exponential-number-format/4688)
**Author:** [@jonm](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/u/jonm)\ **Replies:** 9\ **Last updated:** [April 5, 2023, 4:50pm UTC](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/step-exponential-number-format/4688 "2023-04-05T16:50:47Z")
Does STEP serialization support numbers formated to an exponential format (eg -1E-04 )? I see several toolkits writing this, but when validating on the buildingSMART website an error is suggested when this is used. ie … --- ## [ifcSQL is on github](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/ifcsql-is-on-github/3743)
**Author:** [@bsbock](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/u/bsbock)\ **Replies:** 7\ **Last updated:** [October 12, 2022, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/ifcsql-is-on-github/3743 "2022-10-12T14:48:48Z")
ifcSQL is able to manage multiple schemas and multiple models or building component libraries in a single database. Now it is open source on github: See IfcSharp/IfcSQL (github.com) These are the capabilities of ifcSQ… --- ## [IFCJSON example files](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/ifcjson-example-files/2720)
**Author:** [@Moult](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/u/Moult)\ **Replies:** 3\ **Last updated:** [May 24, 2020, 8:57am UTC](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/ifcjson-example-files/2720 "2020-05-24T08:57:17Z")
I have made a single IFCJSON file available here. It is a single cube-shaped IfcActuator. It is part of the ifc-test-files repository. Many thanks to @Jesusbill for integrating the BlenderBIM Add-on with the IFCJSON t… --- ## [Store, modify and retrieve ifc-data with ifcSQL](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/store-modify-and-retrieve-ifc-data-with-ifcsql/1558)
**Author:** [@bsbock](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/u/bsbock)\ **Replies:** 4\ **Last updated:** [July 4, 2019, 1:57pm UTC](https://forums.buildingsmart.org/t/store-modify-and-retrieve-ifc-data-with-ifcsql/1558 "2019-07-04T13:57:08Z")
This is a picture of a prototype of ifcSQL: (A) The table in namespace (schema) “ifcDocumentation” is currently a placeholder for aditional html-Documentation of Entities, Types, etc. (B) The tables in namespace …