MACE Call for Papers

Within the context of MACE (Metadata for Architectural Contents in Europe), a European project co-funded by the European Commission, a two-day international conference, entitled “Online Repositories in Architecture”, is organised in Venice during the period of “La Biennale di Architettura 2008” on 12-13 September by EAAE (European Association for Architectural Education) and Collaboratorio (Italy) from the MACE project partnership.

The MACE project is interlinking architectural repositories. Gaps resulting from autonomous design, implementation, funding, and maintenance are bridged by implementing conceptual tools (ontologies, glossaries, and standards), interfaces and metadata agglomeration. This happens in order to create innovative e-learning tools that can help expert users and laypeople to find, tag, acquire, use, and discuss contents from many architectural repositories that previously had limited accessibility.

The Venice conference offers the opportunity to make MACE known to a wider public and, mostly, to summon educators, researchers, students, archivists, IT practitioners, and managers of major European architectural portals in order to share knowledge and experience, to convey approaches and research, to promote conceptual and technological tools, to search for common or integrated visions.
Conference participants will also learn how to tag, classify, find, retrieve, use and make available digital architectural contents, scattered over different websites, databases, and digital archives on the Internet.
The conference is structured around a series of 20 presentations of selected papers, complemented with roundtable debates. outlined in three sessions on the following themes:

1. “Education: Teaching Architecture in the Digital Age”
2. “Digital Architectural Archives: Preservation, Dissemination and Use”
3. “An European Network of Architectural Contents”

See detailed information on jury, guidelines and registration on the Bustler Competition Page or visit the Official MACE Conference Website.