Title

Wunderkammer, online resource catalogue

Date

2015

Description

There are countless publications dealing with ontologies and wordings in architecture, but very few – if any – dealing specifically with the field of landscape architecture. The chair of Günther Vogt at ETH Zürich wanted to remedy this. The creation of a lexical ontology of landscape architecture proved to be a long and arduous process, but it all came together nicely in their 'Wunderkammer' project, for which they asked us to come up with a digital interface.
Conceived as a combination of an online lexicon (search/filter) and a learning tool for students (Q&A/stories), it's a web application built on top of the ConedaKOR triple store. This allows the administrators full freedom in expanding on the filter structure, with its dynamic sub-category layout. In addition to finding examples related to specific terminology, students and other users of the application can collect relevant entries (publications, architectural examples, cityscapes, ...) and print these in individual booklets.

Client: ETH Zurich, Prof. Günther Vogt
Project Lead: Meret Arnold (meretarnold.ch)

A/Z&T

Wunderkammer, online resource catalogue