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URBANDATA, providing urban information

Introduction

In 1995, five institutions from different European Countries founded the URBANDATA Association (Hungary has joined in 2000), with the aims to spread scientific, technical and cultural information on urban planning, transport, environment, architecture and building; to develop common products and facilities; to promote exchanges between national, European and international institutions and to develop other co-operative action on related matters.

Description

The URBANDATA Association is a consortium of urban information providers aiming to improve the international exchange and dissemination of information about urban issues and to develop new products and services which will aid those processes.

Participants

ES - Spain: Centro de Información y Documentación Cientifica
DE - Germany: Deutsches Institut für Urbanistik
EN - United Kingdom: Greater London Authority, Research Library
FR - France: Association Urbamet
IT - Italy: Archinet, an association for architectural information
HU - Hungary: VATI Hungarian Public Nonprofit Company for Regional Development and Town Planning

Network lead

The network lead changes annually, 2005:ES

Objectives

Main objective is to exchange and disseminate information about urban issues.

Two products are:

URBADOC – database of 700 000 bibliographical description of information sources
MULETA – lexicon: Multilingual and Multimedia Tool on Environment, Town and Country Planning, Building and Architecture. Muleta offers a translation of words into six languages. Intended to be enhanced by the community of professionals and scientists, it enables users to find concepts, tools & procedures in use in the participating countries

Products

MULETA, URBADOC

EU involvement

MULETA is founded be the European Commission, DG XIII under the MLIS (Multilingual Information Society) programme.

Contact info

http://www.csic.es
Ms Angeles Maldonado, tel. +34 1 563 5482

Links

homepage of URBANDATA homepage of URBADOC homepage of MULETA

Document type

network

Themes

Urban Policy

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