Quality criteria for public cultural Web applications: recommendations and guidelines

Credits

Minerva Working Group 5
Identification of user needs, contents and quality criteria for cultural Web applications

Activity promoter:
Henry Ingberg (General Secretary of the Ministry of the French Community, Belgium)

Coordinator
Isabelle Dujacquier (Ministère de la Communauté française, Belgium)

Components
Majlis Bremer-Laamanen (National Library of Finland), Eelco Bruinsma (Digital Heritage Benchmark Netherlands), David Dawson (Resource, UK), Fedora Filippi (Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, Italy), Muriel Foulonneau (Relais Culture Europe, France), Antonella Fresa (Minerva Technical coordinator), Marius Snyders (Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultur en Wetenschappen, Netherlands), Franca Garzotto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Borje Justrell (Riksarkivet Stockholm, Sweden), Sofia Karagiorgoudi (Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics Patras, Greece), Emmanouil Karatzas (Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics Patras, Greece), Teresa Rodriguez Gonzalez (Biblioteca Nacional Madrid, Spain), Minna Kaukonen (Helsinki University Library, Finland), Nick Poole (Resource, UK), Gert Van Tittelboom (Ministerie van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap, Belgium)

Handbook for quality in public cultural applications:
criteria, guidelines and basic recommendations

Draft Version 1.0, (June 2003)

edited by the Minerva Working Group 5
Identification of user needs, contents and quality criteria for cultural Web applications

General coordination
Rossella Caffo, Isabelle Dujacquier

Editor
Fedora Filippi (WP5 Italian Group coordinator)

Editorial board
Giancarlo Buzzanca, Sara Di Giorgio, Pierluigi Feliciati, Fedora Filippi, Maria Teresa Natale

Texts
Giancarlo Buzzanca (Istituto Centrale del Restauro, Italy), Chiara Del Vecchio (Senato della Repubblica, Italy), Mario Di Domenicantonio (Ministero dell'Innovazione e della Tecnologia, Italy) , Sara Di Giorgio (consultant, Italy), Isabelle Dujacquier (Ministère de la Communauté française de Belgique), Pierluigi Feliciati (Direzione Generale Archivi, Italy), Fedora Filippi (Soprintendenza Archeologica di Roma, Italy), Franca Garzotto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy), Maria Teresa Natale (Minerva Web editor), Maria Pia Guermandi (Istituto Beni Culturali della Regione Emilia Romagna, Italy), Cary Karp (Museum Network Infermation Center Europe, Sweden), Emmanouil Karatzas (Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics Patras, Greece), Sofia Karagiorgoudi (Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics Patras, Greece), Oleg Missikoff (Luiss University, Italy), Maurizio Vittoria (Biblioteca Marciana di Venezia, Italy), Andrea Vituzzi (Luiss University, Italy).

English language revision: Tanya Pacsoo
Web version: Maria Teresa Natale and Andrea Tempera
Secretariat: Sabrina Santangelo (Ministero per i beni culturali e ambientali, Italy)

© 2003 Minerva Project
http://www.minervaeurope.org/publications/qualitycriteria.htm

Acknowledgments
A special thank to the following persons for their helpful contribution: Jean-Claude Blommaert (Ministère de la Communauté française, Belgium), Eelco Bruinsma (Digital Heritage Benchmark Netherlands), Rossella Caffo (Minerva Project coordinator), Stéphane Colignon (Ministère de la Communauté française, Belgium), Jean-Pierre Dalbéra (Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, France), Giovanna Damiani (Polo Museale Fiorentino, Italy), Patrice Dartevelle (Ministère de la Communauté française, Belgium), David Dawson (Resource, UK), Ana Maria Duran (Culturenet Sweden), Antonio De Vanna (Ministero per l'innovazione e la tecnologia, Italy), Ariane Fradcourt (Ministry of the French Community, Belgium), Muriel Foulonneau (Relais Culture, France), Antonella Fresa (Technical Coordinator of Minerva Project), Catherine Godefroid (Ministère de la Communauté française, Belgium), Cécile Hubaut (Musées et Société en Wallonie, Belgium), Annette Kelly (An Chomhairle Leabharlanna Dublin, Ireland), Martine Lahaye (Ministère de la Communauté française, Belgium), Maurizio Lunghi (Project Officer Minerva), Daniel Malbert (Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, France), Patricia Manson (European Commission), Nick Poole (Resource, UK), Colette Rousseau-Rochet (Ministry of the French Community, Belgium), Bernard Smith (European Commission), Marius Snyders (Ministerie van Onderwijs, Cultur en Wetenschappen, Netherlands), Gert Vantittelboom (Belgium), Léon Zaks (Ministère de la Communauté française, Belgium).