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MED-CULT

Workshop Culture of web, Web for culture
4-5 April 2006. Centre for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage, Giza, Egypt

The workshop will last two days.

The first day will be open to all the MEDCULT partners and to national cultural institutions representatives (archives, museums, libraries, schools etc.) interested in participating.
Who should attend?
Policy makers responsible for the web communication, representatives of cultural institutions interested in the management of web sites and responsible of their content, general public.

The second day will be reserved to 20 persons about, involved in the planning or realization of a cultural website.

AGENDA
first day

9:00 – 9:30 Registration of the participants
9:30– 9:45 Opening
9:45 – 10:15

The MINERVA activities
(in this section will be illustrated the activities of the European project MINERVA-Ministerial Network foR Valorising activities in digitisation- in terms of coordination of the digitisation policies and practical products)
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10:15 – 10:45

The STRABON activities
STRABON is a scientific and technical cooperation programme funded by EUMEDIS and coordinated by Maison des Sciences de l’Homme - Paris. Its objective is to equip the Mediterranean space with multilingual and multimedia information system that comprises consistent units of numeric resources regarding the Euro-Mediterranean cultural heritage and ethical tourism. STRABON not only meets the needs of the research and education, but also the cultural expectations of a very large audience.
10:45 – 11:30

MEDCULT partners presentations (15 minutes each)
(each partner will introduce the state of art of cultural web sites in his/her own country and illustrate the activities carried out by his/her instittution)
11:30 – 11:45 break
11:45 – 12:15

MINERVA tools on quality of cultural web sites: Handbooks and Principles
(in this section will be introduced the main publication on which are based the workshop: the Handbook for quality in cultural Web sites: improving quality for citizens (http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/qualitycriteria.htm, English version) and Quality Principles for cultural Web sites: a handbook (http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications.htm, English and French versions already available, draft of the Arab version.

12:15 – 12:30

WAI initiative on accessibility
(in this section will be illustrated the basic principle of the concept of accessibility and the Web Accessibility Initiative of the W3C consortium http://www.w3.org/WAI/, http://www.w3.org).
12:30 – 13:00

Presentation of Museo & Web (First part)
(Museo & Web is a planning Kit for a quality site for small and medium sized museums http://www.minervaeurope.org/structure/workinggroups/userneeds/prototipo/index_e.html. It gives practical information about the architecture and the content of a quality and accessible cultural web site).

13:00 – 14:30 break
14:30 – 15:00

Presentation of Museo & Web (Second part)
(Museo & Web is a planning Kit for a quality site for small and medium sized museums http://www.minervaeurope.org/structure/workinggroups/userneeds/prototipo/index_e.html. It gives practical information about the architecture and the content of a quality and accessible cultural web site).

15:00 – 15:15

Web writing
(basic suggestion on the communication via web).
15:15 – 15:30

IPR and cultural websites
(IPR and copyright issues that can be useful to know when implementing a web site).

                       
15:30 – 16:00 Presentation of an institutional website
16:00 – 17:00 Questions and discussion

Visit to CultNat

second day

9:30 – 13:00

Online analysis of quality and accessibility of cultural websites
(the trainers will analyse and discuss some cultural web sites proposed also by the participants in the light of the MINERVA quality criteria).

The participants will have to define the structure of a website (metanavigation, main navigation, secondary navigation, footer etc.) and start the creation of a model of home page and secondary page using the templates available through Museo & Web.
13:00 – 14:00 break
14:30 – 17:00

Online analysis of quality and accessibility of cultural websites
(the trainers will analyse and discuss some cultural web sites proposed also by the participants in the light of the MINERVA quality criteria).

The participants will have to define the structure of a website (metanavigation, main navigation, secondary navigation, footer etc.) and start the creation of a model of home page and secondary page using the templates available through Museo & Web.