The use of metadata as a means to improve the quality of design: Results from education

We present the results from the evaluation of the use of KeySet in the architectural BSc curriculum at Delft University of Technology. KeySet is a metadata system that provides data with a unique key consisting of a combination of keywords according to four dimensions. These dimensions constitute the qualities that data possess at different levels. In KeySet, assigning keywords to data is considered a form of claiming these qualities that the data possess.