Evaluation of 5 Greek cultural websites based on the quality principles checklists

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

2. Websites Evaluated • The Benaki Museum • The Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” • The National Museum of Contemporary Arts • The Photography Museum of Thessaloniki • TheMuseum of Byzantine Culture

3. The Benaki Museum

4. 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: -

5. 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

6. The Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri”

7. 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: -

8. 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

9. The National Museum of Contemporary Arts

10. 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: -

11. 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

12. The Photography Museum of Thessaloniki

13. 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: -

14. 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

15. TheMuseum of Byzantine Culture

16. TheMuseum 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: -

17. TheMuseum 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

18. Summary of the evaluation results

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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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