MACE project successfully concluded
 | MACE stands for Metadata for Architectural Contents in Europe. The MACE project team developed an internet based information system that links up major international architectural archives with data records about completed and presently planned construction projects. The European Commission supported this initiative from 1 September 2006 to 31 August 2009 in the eContentplus programme. The final review has taken place and MACE turns out to be one of the best evaluated projects. |
Meta-tagging
MACE opens the international archives for interested parties and supports for locating, obtaining and using relevant content. MACE promotes the inspiration of architects and improves their education and advanced training. It supports teaching and learning processes and offers a set of various possibilities to utilise the MACE portal.
For this purpose, MACE links information originating in different archives on the basis of their metadata. MACE enhances architectural education by integrating and connecting vast amounts of content from diverse repositories, including past European projects and architectural design communities. This project enables access to learning units and digital architectural contents irrespective of provenance and language. It provides services for meta-tagging and content navigation as well as search and reuse functions via different possibilities.
Navigate and participate
MACE allows visitors to navigate metadata in order to access content repositories through a toolset for a critical mass of digital content for learning with semantically well-defined formal descriptions that give meaning to metadata. These MACE tools enable the application of quality content based services. MACE contributes an infrastructure that allows interested visitors to participate, even after the project has ended. These include innovative e-learning services for the community such as competence related finding, acquiring, using and discussing contents that previously had only limited accessibility for small groups.
Tools and services for e-learning
Looking back to three years successful work, CELSTEC contributes a range of tools and services for e-learning about architecture in Europe in MACE. These include:
- MACE Competence Toolset
- MACE IMS-Learning Designs
- MACE Mobile Application (ALOQA)
These tools create possibilities for a variety of ways to explore content about architecture and construction engineering via different interfaces and metadata classifications based on prior knowledge and competences.
Go to the MACE Portal
Go to the MACE project site
