MACE: Joint Deliverable "Functional prototype for metadata tools and concepts"

This deliverable describes concepts and functional prototypes developed in MACE. Its goal is to describe the prototypes for metadata enrichment developed in the MACE project so far. As a joint deliverable, it is a collection of the following deliverables listed in the Description of Work: - D3.2 Functional Prototype for usage metadata - D4.3 Functional Prototype for contextual metadata - D5.2 Functional Prototype for competence and process metadata - D6.3 Functional Prototype for content and domain metadata For each deliverable, a separate chapter is included so that references to the planned deliverables can be derived easily. In addition, this deliverable is strongly connected to Joint Deliverable JD5: "MACE toolset and infrastructure, prototype", also due in M15

Gesellschaft der Organisationen, organisierte Gesellschaft, Organisationsgesellschaft. Zu den Grenzen einer an Organisationen ansetzenden Zeitdiagnose.

Kühl S. Gesellschaft der Organisationen, organisierte Gesellschaft, Organisationsgesellschaft. Zu den Grenzen einer an Organisationen ansetzenden Zeitdiagnose. In: Apelt M, Wilkesmann U, eds. Zur Zukunft der Organisationssoziologie. Wiesbaden: Springer VS; 2015: 73-91

MACE: connecting architectural content repositories to enable new educational experiences inside a collective external memory

In the practice and learning of Architecture and Civil Engineering, it is fundamental to access a big amount of learning material. A considerable part of the knowledge which once was written in books is now being moved to digital media. Today, most of the contents are produced and presented in digital format only. Spread around the world, digital content repositories containing a big amount of notions exist, but are oftentimes unknown and disjointed. As a consequence, they are not very efficient resources for learning at the moment. The European research project MACE (Metadata for Architectural Contents in Europe) aims at connecting digital architectural repositories by harvesting their metadata and enriching it through the integration of content and domain, context, competence and process, and usage and social metadata. The network created will allow for federated access and search over all connected repositories, allowing a new way of exploring notions and knowledge in the architectural domain, using the web as a "collective external memory

MACE – Enriching Architectural Learning Objects for Experience Multiplication.

Stefaner, M., Dalla Vecchia, E., Condotta, M., Wolpers, M., Specht, M., Apelt, M., Duval, E. (2007) MACE – Enriching Architectural Learning Objects for Experience Multiplication. In: Duval, E., Klamma, R., & Wolpers, M. (eds.) EC-TEL 2007. LNCS 4753; Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; pp. 322-336.Education in architecture requires access to a broad range of architectural learning material to develop flexibility and creativity in design. The learning material is compromised of digital information captured in textual and visual media including single images, videos, description of architectural concepts or complete architectural projects, i.e. digital artifacts on different aggregation levels. The repositories storing such information are not interrelated and do not provide unified access so that retrieval of architectural learning objects is cumbersome and time consuming. In this paper, we describe how an infrastructure of federated architectural learning repositories will provide unique, integrated access facilities for high quality architectural content. The integration of various types of content, usage, social and contextual metadata enables users to develop multiple perspectives and navigation paths that support experience multiplication for the user. A service– oriented software architecture that is based on open standards, and a flexible user interface design solutions based on widgets ensure easy integration and re- combinability of contents, metadata and functionalities

GPR61 anchoring of PKA consolidates GPCR and cAMP signaling

Scaffolding proteins organize the information flow from activated G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) to intracellular effector cascades both spatially and temporally. By this means, signaling scaffolds, such as A-kinase anchoring proteins (AKAPs), compartmentalize kinase activity and ensure substrate selectivity. Using a phosphoproteomics approach we identified a physical and functional connection between protein kinase A (PKA) and Gpr161 (an orphan GPCR) signaling. We show that Gpr161 functions as a selective high-affinity AKAP for type I PKA regulatory subunits (RI). Using cell-based reporters to map protein–protein interactions, we discovered that RI binds directly and selectively to a hydrophobic protein–protein interaction interface in the cytoplasmic carboxyl-terminal tail of Gpr161. Furthermore, our data demonstrate that a binary complex between Gpr161 and RI promotes the compartmentalization of Gpr161 to the plasma membrane. Moreover, we show that Gpr161, functioning as an AKAP, recruits PKA RI to primary cilia in zebrafish embryos. We also show that Gpr161 is a target of PKA phosphorylation, and that mutation of the PKA phosphorylation site affects ciliary receptor localization. Thus, we propose that Gpr161 is itself an AKAP and that the cAMP-sensing Gpr161:PKA complex acts as cilium-compartmentalized signalosome, a concept that now needs to be considered in the analyzing, interpreting, and pharmaceutical targeting of PKA-associated functions

Zwangsorganisationen

Kühl S. Zwangsorganisationen. In: Maja A, Veronika T, eds. Handbuch Organisationstypen. Wiesbaden: Springer VS / Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH; 2012: 345-358

MACE: D3-6.1 - Metadata taxonomy and their integration

This document introduces and describes taxonomies for each metadata type in MACE: Usage and social metadata, context metadata, learning process and design metadata and content and domain metadata. Listed in the MACE Description of Work as separate deliverables, they are combined into this document, with each work package forming one of the main chapters. The purpose of this document is to provide a basis for further project activities by defining candidate metadata attributes that will be used in the enrichment process. This happened in cooperation with requirements analysis activities in work package 2. While the results from work package 2 – described in the deliverables D2.1, D2.2 & D2.3 – define metadata from the user point of view, this deliverable shows what is technically possible. Further efforts on integration and development of the ideas described here will lead to a prototype model o

Shared information space. A solution outline for a global information grid

In this paper, we describe the need, requirements and challenges for implementing a global information grid. The grid connects all participating elements in a military mission and provides them with all mission-relevant information in a timely and secure manner, independent of the used command and control information systems (C2IS), the available communication technologies, the degree of mobility, and the kind of communication networks. Furthermore, we provide an outline for a solution for a Shared Information Space, an implementation of a global information grid meeting these requirements. The proposed Shared Information Space is a concept for a distributed database with an efficient, secure and flexible replication mechanism that features a context-based filtering mechanism (depending on the role, mission, and device) and takes the bandwidth restrictions and disruptions of tactical networks into account. Furthermore, the Shared Information Space acts as a generic mediation service, converting between different interoperability standards. C2IS can connect to the Shared Information Space via a new lightweight Access API1 or via established military standards like NFFI2, NVG3 and MIP4