Metadata Representation of Real-World Objects for Architectural Education

Within the MACE project, we support simple access to and retrieval of digital learning resources in exploratory architectural education. In order to facilitate the improved access, we introduce a digital representation of real world objects through an extension of the LOM based MACE application profile, named entity recognition and the combination of various databases. Automatically grouping learning resources, we add additional metadata otherwise not available and thus improve retrieval of suitable learning resources. Our first results clearly indicate the suitability of our approach.