Quality criteria for public cultural Web applications: recommendations and guidelines

Acronyms

• CD-ROM: Compact Disc Read-Only Memory
• CERN: Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire
• DIGICULT: Digital Heritage and Cultural Content
• EAD: Encoded Archival Description
• EBLIDA: European Bureau of Library, Information and Documentation Associations
• EEC: European Economic Community
• ERPANET: Electronic Resource Preservation and Access Network
• EU: Eurepean Union
• FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
• GIF: Graphics Interchange Format
• HCI Human-Computer Interaction
• HTML HyperText Markup Language
• ICA: International Council of Archives
• ICANN: The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers
• ICOM: International Council of Museum
• ICT: Information and Communication Technology
• IFLA: International Federation of Libraries Associations
• IPR: Intellectual Property Rights
• ISAAR: International Standard Archivial Authority Record
• ISAD: International Standard Archivial Description
• ISBD: International Standard Bibliographic Description
• JPEG: Joint Photographic Experts Group
• LABsTECH: Laboratories on Science and Technology for the conservation of European Cultural heritage
• MiLE: Milano - Lugano Evaluation Method
• MINERVA: Ministerial NetwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitation
• OPAC: On-line Public Access Catalogues
• PNG: Portable Network Graphics
• ROC: Request of Content
• TDL: Top Level Domain
• UNESCO: United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
• VRD: Virtual Reference Desk
• W3C: World Wide Web Consortium
• WAI: Web Accessibility Iniziative
• WCAG: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• WWW: World Wide Web
• XHTML: The Extensible HyperText Markup Language

Adopted in the handbook

• PCE: Public Cultural Entity
• PCWA: Public Cultural Web Application