One year of Italian WP5 activity
Italian edition and dissemination
of the
Cultural Web Quality Handbook
and the results from 27 case studies
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“Rather than distribute a message to
recipients who are outside the process of
creation and invited to give meaning to a
work of art belatedly, the artist now
attempts to construct an environment, a
system of communication and production,
a collective event that implies its recipients,
transforms interpreters into actors, enables
interpretation to enter the loop with
collective action.”
Pierre Lévy, Collective Intelligence: Mankind's Emerging World in
Cyberspace (1994)
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The Italian Working Group
Fedora Filippi (coordinatore), Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma
Cinzia Ammannato, Dir. Generale per il Patrimonio Storico, Artistico,
Demoetnoantropologico
Giancarlo Buzzanca, Istituto Centrale del Restauro
Chiara De Vecchis, Senato della Repubblica
Mario Di Domenicantonio, Ministero dell'Innovazione e delle tecnologie
Sara Di Giorgio, Progetto MINERVA
Pierluigi Feliciati, Dir. Generale per gli Archivi
Marina Fresa, Dir. Generale per per i Beni Architettonici e Paesaggistici
Franca Garzotto, Politecnico di Milano
Maria Pia Guermandi, Regione Emilia Romagna
Luisa Marucci, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, ISTI, Pisa
Oleg Missikoff, CERSI – LUISS
Maria Teresa Natale, Progetto MINERVA
Sabrina Santangelo, Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali
Oreste Signore, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, ISTI, Pisa – W3C Italia
Maurizio Vittoria, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana, Venezia – Progetto CABI
Andrea Vituzzi, CERSI – LUISS
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MiBAC
government
experts
local auth.
university
Our starting point
Handbook for quality in cultural web sites.
Improving quality for citizens
Presented and approved during the Parma International
conference (21st November 2003)
http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/qualitycriteria1_2draft/qualitypdf1103.pdf
• The Handbook was conceived as a work in
progress.
• The Handbook has been downloaded from more
than 4000 users and distributed in 500 printed
copies.
• The Italian WG5 choosed to continue its acrivity
from this point: a model for cultural web planning
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our main activities
1. Italian edition of the Handbook for quality in
cultural web sites.
2. Handbook Dissemination
3. Test bed of the handbook
4. Deepening of some themes, in cooperation with
universities and W3C
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Language
Semantic Web
Training and development tools
Development of model-sites
Web preservation
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Italian edition (february 04)
Definitions
• to help stakeholders reading the handbook
Principles
• to emphasize the necessity of quality
Strategic Recommendations
• to ensure a quality management now and in the
future (cooperation, transparency, coordination,
planning control, IPR and privacy issues,
interoperability, long-term preservation…)
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Italian edition - contents
A guide to good Web
• Introduction to accessibility and usability:
the attention to the users and their
requirements
• A method for good Web planning: the
catalogue of patterns
A guide to cultural web planning
• 12 goals for cultural web
• 12 goals for 8 categories
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Additional contents
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Elements for an history of cultural Web
How to use the Handbook?
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Example # 1 - Planning the website of an Archive
Example # 2 - Planning the website of a Library
Example # 3 - Planning the website of a Museum
Catalogue of Patterns
Directory of national rules on Web Applications + the
Italian law 4/2004 on accessibility
The 10 quality principles
WAI WCAG 1.0 Checkpoints
Cross References with Minerva Working Groups
Glossary, abbreviations, bibliography and references
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A guide to good web:
the language of patterns
Patterns represent a different and open approach
to the concrete problems of planning for quality
Web sites.
Using patterns resolves recurring planning
problems through consolidated solutions.
A. Context
B. Problem
C. Solution
http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/qualitycriteria1_2draft/appendix2.htm
http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/qualitycriteria-i/indice0402/appendicetre0402.htm
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Cultural categories and web
application goals
8 cultural categories
• Archives
• Libraries
• Heritage diffusedCROS
on
territory
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• Museums
• Institutes for
administration and
safeguarding
• Centres for research and
education
• Temporary exhibitions
• Cultural projects
12 cultural web application goals
• transparency on the identity
• transparency on the application
• efficiency in the sector networks
• presentation of standards and
regulations
• spreading of cultural content
• support of cultural tourism
• offer of educational services
• offer of services for scientific research
• offer of services to professionals
• offer of services for reservations and ecommerce
• promotion of web communities
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Handbook dissemination
8 seminars with 621partecipants
Rome, Milan, Turin, Venice, Bologna,
Florence, Naples, Bari, …
MiBAC
31%
Others
16%
Government
3%
Business
22%
Universities,
Research, schools
14%
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local authorities
14%
Print, run & download of the Handbook
from the Web
Print version distributed during Parma
Conference
482
Download of English version
4.024
First Italian print edition
3000
Run and download of Italian web version
18.162
TOTAL
25.508
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Handbook dissemination
Italian Universities where the Handbook was
adopted:
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Bari
Macerata - Fermo
Modena e Reggio Emilia
Pisa Scuola Normale Superiore
Rome I “la Sapienza”
Rome LUISS “Guido Carli”
Rome III
Siena
Torino
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The handbook test bed
• The Italian WG on quality, during
dissemination seminars, proposed a
testing activity, to check the
handbook “on the run”
• Almost 30 private and public cultural
institutions and companies choosed
to be involved
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The handbook test bed
The test bed has been done through a
questionnaire where the responsible of web site
with the support of the technical and editorial
staff, has annotated all the aspects of their Web
project, on the base of the model offered in the
Handbook.
The questionnaire was conceived as a diary: more
versions were produced and distributed in the
WG.
The case studies annotated also the utility and the
problems of the Handbook during their activity.
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The handbook test bed
Archives
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Archivio Centrale dello Stato – Rome
ADA - Archaeological Data Archives (Rome)
Libraries
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Biblioteca Marciana, Venezia
Library and Documentation Centre of Communications
Minister
Library ‘Luigi Chiarini’ of Public Cinema School in
Rome
CILEA Virtual Library
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The handbook test bed
Cultural heritage diffused on territory
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Network of regional botanical gardens - Lombardia
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National Parks of rupestral incisions
Museums
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Etnological Museum Luigi Pigorini – Rome
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National Museum of arts and folk - Rome
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Napoleonic Museum - Rome
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Museum System of Sabbia Valley - Lombardia
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The handbook test bed
Cultural projects
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Bronze Monument Conservation Conference
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Pierreci, Services for art and culture
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Zone Attive – go.card project (Rome)
Institutes for administration and safeguarding
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Cultural Soprintendenza of Sardegna
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Cultural Soprintendenza of Basilicata
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Soprintendenza for art, architecture and landscape –
Cagliari and Oristano (Sardinia)
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Soprintendenza for art, architecture and landscape Basilicata
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Region Marche, cultural sector
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Autonomous Region Valle d’Aosta, cultural sector
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Soprintendenza for archeology of Etruria region and Villa
Giulia Etruscan Museum
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The handbook test bed
Institutes for administration and safeguarding (./.)
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MiBAC, General Directorate for architecture and
landscape
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MiBAC, General Directorate for contemporary art and
architecture
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MiBAC, General Directorate for archeology
Centres for research and education
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Foundation Querini Stampalia (Venice)
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UNESCO - ICCROM (International Centre for the
Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural
Property)
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The case studies
MiBAC
local auth.
7%
foundations and
others
private comp.
18%
54%
21%
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Why do test the handbook?
review
7%
new site
others
20%
73%
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main objectives declared
22%
50%
information,
education
research tools
others
28%
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What do you think the users want?
informations
i don't know
others
50%
36%
14%
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Target users
33%
16%
8%
8%
19%
16%
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scholars
all users
students
professionals
turists
others
Case studies:
Excellence and critical points
• A generalized sensibility to the quality of
contents
• A brand new attention to accessibility
but…
• Lack of organisational planning
• Problems on interoperability issues
• Complex information flow
• Difficult dialogue between ICT professionals
and content manager
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The second Italian edition (june 05)
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Updating of chapter 2 (technical quality)
Updating of national rules directory
More original contents:
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Scientific communication in the Web era
Handbook Testing results
The handbook for education
The Museum&Web kit
IPR and copyright state of the art
Networks and portals: what’s the matter?
“Semantic Web” seminar papers
For the web conservation
Words on the Web
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