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The quality of Hungarian cultural sites: the ten quality principles defined within the Minerva Project

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Szaloki G.
Tudomanyos es Muszaki Tajekoztatas ( Scientific and Technical Information; Hungarian journal of library and information science)
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2006
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vol. 53
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issue 3
111-117
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In our days, when nearly every cultural institution has a website, it is time to focus on quality. Quality does not only depend on technology, it is equally connected with well organized content, continuous maintenance and the monitoring of user needs. The EU-funded Minerva project defines ten quality principles for cultural sites. Sites should be transparent, effective, maintained, accessible, user-centered, responsive, multi-lingual, interoperable, managed and preserved. In March 2005, a quality test was carried out among six Hungarian cultural sites at the request of the Minerva working group on the quality of websites. All the examined websites have proved highly accessible and effective. However, the general challenges for the tested sites were the following: 1. Mission statement missing, or not on the front page 2. Crumbtrail, or sitemap missing 3. Multilingual equals with bilingual 3. Users are not involved by the planning 4. User-forums are missing 5. Problems with using metadata standards and OAI-PMH protocols 6. Media migration plan and disaster recovery plan are missing.
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Virtual togetherness, real success: the online communities

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Szaloki G.
Tudomanyos es Muszaki Tajekoztatas ( Scientific and Technical Information; Hungarian journal of library and information science)
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2006
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vol. 53
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issue 9
409-421
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The development of information technology tools enables the communication between many users at the same time, thus encourages the formation of different online communities. Although the function of the communities is quite similar, the technology used can be differentiated: asynchronous (e-mail, bulletin board, UseNet, blog), and synchronous (chat, Instant Messaging, Wiki). Social networks have become very popular, for example one successful example in Hungary is iWiW. Not just the technology, but also the users have undergone a significant change. At the beginning, members belonged to the research sector with the same profession, while today a wide range of users with different professions can formulate a community along their interests, hobbies, etc. The use of the Internet influenced the patterns of social behavior: it enables to make new friends, and also nursing old relations. Every day new online communities are born, and some of them disappear. What are the factors of the success? This study examined the success factors of online communities in Hungary, more specifically communities tied together by a common health or physical issue. A survey developed by Abras was used to collect feedback from the users of BabaNet, an online childcare community in Hungary. The survey tests well-known usability heuristics, and validates less well-explored sociability heuristics from the participants' perspectives. The questionnaire was prepared for defining the success of online communities, and providing guidelines for designers on how to create successful online health communities. For the testing of usability and sociability a Likert scale was used. The candidates had to determine whether these questions are important. The majority of respondents found that easy navigation, accessibility, and rapidity are very important usability factors and the well arranged and consequent layout of the site is important too. Regarding the sociability factors they found important the purpose of the community, the interactive discussions, a set of useful information, the respect of rules and the sense of a community. They found neutral the active participation in the discussions, shallow discussions, or shallow relationships. They didn't think pictures and avatars were important. Consequently, the success of an online community from the participants' perspective proved to be the common interest, the behavior of the members and the usefulness.
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'Ebook-On-Demand' (EOD): an online service from the user's perspective

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Szaloki G.
Tudomanyos es Muszaki Tajekoztatas ( Scientific and Technical Information; Hungarian journal of library and information science)
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2008
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vol. 55
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issue 10
461-469
EN
The EOD Project was originally conceived and launched by the University of Innsbruck to provide a service of 'e-books on demand' in co-operation with 13 libraries from 8 countries. The Project aims to work out a successful business model that could be utilized in digitizing the collections of public libraries. To this end, questionnaire-based surveys were conducted in order to determine the accurate volume of demands. The results thus gained can serve important lessons for those in charge of the operation of digitization.
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Digital culture in the European Union - the Minerva project

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Szaloki G.
Tudomanyos es Muszaki Tajekoztatas ( Scientific and Technical Information; Hungarian journal of library and information science)
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2005
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vol. 52
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issue 1
6-11
EN
In our days, the importance of making valuable cultural content available on the Internet is increasing. Cultural institutions need to adapt to new user needs. The Minerva project - that Hungary joined from 2004 - was launched in order to coordinate and support digitisation activities at the European level. The project is based on the Lund Principles that were published in 2001. The programme of the project is known as the Lund Action Plan. The implementation itself started in 2002. For the supervision of the implementation of the principles, a permanent committee called the National Representatives Group was formed with the participation of experts from the member states. The individual tasks are carried out by international working groups that support the digitisation of cultural content by elaborating standards and guidelines. Hungary joined the MinervaPlus initiative in 2004 and its current involvement includes a study on the use of European multi-language websites and thesauri. The results show that 30,1% of the cultural websites in Europe are still published in one language only, 43,2% of them are bilingual and 26,7% are in multiple languages. The second or third language is most often English. There are 31 controlled vocabularies in the records so far. The final analysis of the results is expected in November 2004, after the meeting of the working group.
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