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lecturers, professors and students, as well as
among institutions of higher education. Actuality
of this initiative from Győr is best shown by the
dynamic increase in the number of visitors since
the beginning, and now achieves a rate of as high
as 2300 visitors in a month. URL-address of the
portal, and links to actual works are incorporated
onto the homepages of numerous institutions
dealing with the profession or the education in
general, however, real acknowledgement is proved
by responses from the users - both students and
industrial experts.
Our “Database for Architecture” (www.arc.sze.
hu/indexen.html) started in 2001 with the target
to provide
up-to-date and easily useable, editable
knowledge materials
that can be easily accessed
at any time and from any place
, to the education
of architects at any level in Győr. A more effective
education at a higher level can be achieved with
the help of electronic subject-matters following
the changes in the profession in a flexible way.
Knowledge on the fields of related branches, the
most recent aims of science and technique, and
examples realized in practical life are dynami-
cally coupled with basic knowledge. Through the
step-by-step building up of the complexity-aimed
database-concept of several special branches,
versatility and richness of our profession
has
also been outlined, and at the same time it was an
important point of view to fulfill proper selection
by
correct technical content, its perfection levels
and actuality of information
.
Realization of the above targets till now
means - on the example of the subject Build-
ing Constructions - that lecture notes, practical
guides and study aids with references, electronic
stores of drawings, and planning and construc-
tion sheets and brochures of leading companies
manufacturing building materials - all that can
be achieved at the same place. In addition to that,
further homepages of professional and scientific
character, journals, reviews and periodicals from
Hungary and abroad, as well as a selection of
independent articles can be found here.
Successful operation of the Database for
Architecture is maintained - beside its logical
structural arrangement, good selection of contents
and favourable appearance - by
numerous special
services
(search possibilities, integrated dictionar-
ies, forum, students' administration, news bar).
In our days, it is a general experience that the
county borders are getting more and more perme-
able within Europe of the regions - thereby making
wide-ranging collaborate and cooperation very
easy. An important precursor and catalyst of this
process is the world-wide web where results of
international research and practical achievements
can be published, as well. Internet is, however,
much more than simply one of the media because
cooperation can be established and practised on a
daily basis among different institutions of higher
education owing to its
interactivity
. There is a pos-
sibility to more reasonable sharing of the activities,
or publishing the results in a common knowledge
base. The electronic type knowledge bases serve
- owing to the interactivity they provide, too - as
educational tools of extreme efficiency
.
In the meanwhile it must always be taken into
consideration that education of future architects
has the characteristic feature of often being highly
individual regarding the duties given and solutions
obtained therefore a personal master-and-follower
contact is and shall be of uppermost importance.
The knowledge base provides a very useful
background for these works, too, for example in
sensible and impressing performing of the variety
of good solutions.
ELEctronIc tEAcHIng
knoWLEdgE BASES
AS ArcHEtyPES
Through existing domestic professional databases
and ideas there were favourable impulses given
for a new viable concept suitable for the above
detailed wide-ranging demands at our university.
These were then complemented a continuous “evo-
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