Karagiorgoudi Sofia Kazantzi Athanasia Evaluation of 5 Greek cultural websites based on the quality principles checklists Karagiorgoudi Sofia Kazantzi Athanasia

Websites Evaluated The Benaki Museum 25/12/2018 Websites Evaluated The Benaki Museum The Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” The National Museum of Contemporary Arts The Photography Museum of Thessaloniki The Museum of Byzantine Culture

25/12/2018 The Benaki Museum

The Benaki Museum evaluation 25/12/2018 The Benaki Museum evaluation Transparency: partly Site name is indicative of website nature and purpose No mission statement Effectiveness: partly Supporting information, images at suitable resolution, sitemap and homepage available No search facility, no crumbtrail Maintained: yes Obsolete material is removed and archived Policy??? Accessible: almost not No textual equivalent for any visual elements Support multiple browser types and slow connections User-Centred: -

The Benaki Museum evaluation 25/12/2018 The Benaki Museum evaluation Responsive: No No facility for users to ask questions Multi-lingual:Partly Functionality and content in 2 languages (Greek and English) No easy switching between languages Policy??? Interoperable: - Managed:yes Only low-quality images Preserved:partly Standard file formats and presentation technologies, no proprietary technology and plugins No information about policies and procedures for preservation

The Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” 25/12/2018 The Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri”

The Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” evaluation 25/12/2018 The Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” evaluation Transparency: yes (meet almost all criteria) Site name is indicative of website nature and purpose, mission statement exists Url not indicative of website purpose Effectiveness: yes Supporting information, images at suitable resolution, sitemap and homepage, search facility, crumbtrail available, back button works as expected Maintained: yes Obsolete material is removed and archived Policy??? Accessible: yes It is Bobby approved Supports multiple browser types, slow connections User-Centred: -

The Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” evaluation 25/12/2018 The Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” evaluation Responsive: partly Facility for users to ask questions is available Multi-lingual: Almost yes Functionality and content in 2 languages (Greek and English), easy switching between languages Policy??? Interoperable: partly Support distributed site search, make use of relevant standards No information about compliance with Dublin Core Managed:yes Only low-quality images Preserved:partly Standard file formats and presentation technologies, no proprietary technology and plugins No information about policies and procedures for preservation

The National Museum of Contemporary Arts 25/12/2018 The National Museum of Contemporary Arts

The National Museum of Contemporary Arts evaluation 25/12/2018 The National Museum of Contemporary Arts evaluation Transparency: partly Site name is indicative of website nature and purpose No mission statement Effectiveness: almost yes Supporting information, images at suitable resolution, sitemap, homepage and search facility available No crumbtrail Maintained: yes Obsolete material is removed and archived Policy??? Accessible: yes Textual equivalent for all visual elements Supports multiple browser types and slow connections User-Centred: -

The National Museum of Contemporary Arts evaluation 25/12/2018 The National Museum of Contemporary Arts evaluation Responsive: No No facility for users to ask questions Multi-lingual:Almost yes Functionality and content in 2 languages (Greek and English), easy switching between languages Policy??? Interoperable: - Managed:yes Only low-quality images Preserved:partly Standard file formats and presentation technologies, no proprietary technology and plugins No information about policies and procedures for preservation

The Photography Museum of Thessaloniki 25/12/2018 The Photography Museum of Thessaloniki

The Photography Museum of Thessaloniki evaluation 25/12/2018 The Photography Museum of Thessaloniki evaluation Transparency: partly Site name is indicative of website nature and purpose No mission statement Effectiveness: partly Supporting information, images at suitable resolution, homepage available No search facility, no crumbtrail, no sitemap Maintained: yes Obsolete material is removed and archived Policy??? Accessible: almost No No textual equivalent for all visual elements Supports multiple browser types and slow connections User-Centred: -

The Photography Museum of Thessaloniki evaluation 25/12/2018 The Photography Museum of Thessaloniki evaluation Responsive: No No facility for users to ask questions Multi-lingual:Partly Functionality and content in 2 languages (Greek and English) Not easy switching between languages Policy??? Interoperable: - Managed:yes Only low-quality images Preserved:partly Standard file formats and presentation technologies, no proprietary technology and plugins No information about policies and procedures for preservation

The Museum of Byzantine Culture 25/12/2018 The Museum of Byzantine Culture

The Museum of Byzantine Culture evaluation 25/12/2018 The Museum of Byzantine Culture evaluation Transparency: partly Site name is indicative of website nature and purpose No mission statement, Url not indicative of website purpose Effectiveness: partly Supporting information, images at suitable resolution, homepage available, back button work as expected No site search facility, no crumbtrail, no sitemap Maintained: yes Obsolete material is removed and archived Policy??? Accessible: partly No textual equivalent for all visual elements Supports multiple browser types and slow connections User-Centred: -

The Museum of Byzantine Culture evaluation 25/12/2018 The Museum of Byzantine Culture evaluation Responsive: No No facility for users to ask questions Multi-lingual:Partly Functionality and content in 2 languages (Greek and English) Not easy switching between languages Policy??? Interoperable: - Managed:yes Only low-quality images Preserved:partly Standard file formats and presentation technologies, no proprietary technology and plugins No information about policies and procedures for preservation

Summary of the evaluation results 25/12/2018 Summary of the evaluation results

Conclusions For a few principles we have no results 25/12/2018 Conclusions For a few principles we have no results Websites are in the phase of on-line publication and we don’t have any information regarding website development Greek websites partially meet quality principles because they: Aim to present the cultural organization that holds and maintains them Intend to attract visitors to museums and not to present a large set of their collection holdings Their creation and implementation was an internal project and the funds were usually inadequate

Current situation First large scale attempt: 25/12/2018 Current situation First large scale attempt: Operational programme “Information Society”, Invitation 65 146 digitization projects 6 studies about main issues of digitization, f.e. Good practices in digitization Quality framework for the design and development of web sites of Cultural entities: Study and consultation Digitization of 3D objects IPR Studies are almost completed. The implementation of the rest of the projects must comply with the results of studies

Example of current situation 25/12/2018 Example of current situation “Virtual Tour to Monuments of Aitoloakarnania and Achaia ” This project aims to collect, digitize and exploit the cultural material that concerns pre-Christian monuments of prefectures Aitoloakarnania and Achaia in Region of Western Greece It is in the phase of Metadata Capture and meets the quality principles For example: International metadata (DC, DIG 35) Digital watermarking Supporting information is reviewed by experts

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