Model-based user interface design for the encyclopedia of Islamic Architecture

Abstract

The Encyclopedia of Islamic Architecture (EIA) provides the architectural design information that is empirically believed to best represent the content of this kind of architecture, besides being a platform for achieving all accumulated information elements. It is also containing a design information framework to operate as a mechanism for representation of design knowledge through an integrated software/hardware solution. The electronic Encyclopedia of Islamic Architecture is designed to meet the unique needs of specific professions working in true collaborative research operations across the multi-disciplinary extended enterprise including style and form design, historical background and the definition of detailed characteristics of Islamic Architecture. It is a useful research, prototyping and information seeking tool which comprise a number of activities from topic formulation to database search and browsing through accessed document providing a mechanism for user's information need that is useful in every phases of the information seeking process. © 2012 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.