Semiotic based facetted classification to support browsing architectural contents in MACE

The research project MACE1 presented in this paper aims at organizing already existing architectural and engineering digital archives stored in European repositories. The new settled interconnections will be driven both by usage and by structured-knowledge; moreover, contents and interconnections will be accessible in an intuitive and interactive way. The goal is to create an ensemble of findable, accessible and reusable information, hence forming the basis of a meaningful, extensible network of architectural information.