MACE: shared ontology – based network for architectural education

This paper presents MACE project (Metadata for Architectural Contents in Europe) that sets out to transform the ways of e-learning in architecture and construction in Europe. It will integrate vast amounts of content from diverse repositories created in several large projects in the past, and build a frame- work for providing community-based services such as finding, acquiring, using and discussing about e-learning contents that were previously not reachable. Furthermore, MACE aims at providing innovative tools to search, create content and enrich it with new metadata, which can be used to support different learning scenarios. Several kinds of metadata are used in these tools to provide different perspectives on the learning content, and find new ways to combine them.