The PiacenzaLabs repository, a MACE EU project application (original) (raw)

MACE is a European research project which aims to develop methodologies of e-learning in architecture, integrating and implementing the report a lot of content already stored in database created and developed in other projects, including European. The system indexing the Learning Object in according to an approach that is based on the characteristics of the media itself and on the content and concepts that are housed in it. MACE will provide end users a service targeted to the research, acquisition, use and discussion on content reserved only a first small community of users. The development environment is that IT and especially that of Metadata. The project is to evolve simple digital containers to a collaborative environment and support the design and teaching. The project uses different types of metadata to classify content: metadata traditional ontological, contextual, related to skills, etc.. Research has focused primarily on developing a system capable of recognizing and cataloging digital content in various repositories and the definition of the characteristics that the metadata related to any content, had to have. The Application Profile is based on thesauri and classification systems and is an extension of the LOM Standard. Another aspect is the application of concepts and technologies to emerging MACE Repository PiacenzaLabs of the Piacenza Campus. The contribution is intended to amend and broaden the disciplinary and cultural references of MACE compared to architecture, to the disciplines of planning, the design of urban space, and wants to be a case study of the project, a scale and in a the papers recently definition.