Day
1
Introduction
of the participants and their current role and expectations.
Review
of of main portals, newspapers, magazines, journals, university
digital libraries, specialized documentation centers, bulletin
boards, country and sociocultural web sites. These reviews
will highlight the challenges, achievements, as well as technical
and operational requirements of each kind of system.
Experts
from different media will be invited, furnished with a list
of questions upon which to base their presentation, and given
some time to answer the questions from the audience.
One issue
addressed will be the building of work teams, methods of on-line
working, and activities coordination by means of intranets.
A hands-on
session will follow dedicated to the use of search engines
and portals to access information, newspapers, multiplataform
systems, like e-mail to pagers, and palm pilots.
A specific
theme will be defined and assigned to teams of 2 participants,
who will work on it during the rest of the week.
This day
will allow each participant to find a specific role and assess
the technical and financial requirements to achieve it.
Day 2
Information
Theory. (This should be covered by a journalist or communicator
and will consume the morning, with a questions session)
The following
aspects will be discussed:
How to
become aware of the information in our posession.
How to
publish it. What are the differences between different formats
(an essay or a press release?)
Research
Methodology: the content producer must know how to find contents!
How to
organize sources. (Indexes, Bookmarks, etc.)
How and
what to publish about my subject.
Quality
Control
Editing,
reviewing, style correction and uniformization of the used
language. (Spanish local varieties).
Social
Responsibility in relation with the information handled.
The afternoon
will be dedicated to a practical on-line research on a particular
subject. Two different ways to present the subject will be
developed, by means of 2 different web pages applying the
skills learned.
Day 3
Basic
Design: HTML with Netscape Composer or FrontPage2000. HTML
complements (javascripts, database, forms, etc.)
theoretical
hours in the morning and 2 hours hands-on after the coffee
break to implement what was researched the first day and written
the second day.
In the
afternoon 2 hours will be dedicated to basic graphic design
for the web (issues of color, size, animation) and 2 hours
of hands-on using Microsoft Image Composer, PaintShop Pro
and the animation and file compression tools that these programs
offer. Other file compression programs will be discussed.
METADATA for indexing/cataloging will be presented.
Day 4
Database:
Virtual Libraries and Documentation Centers
A case
study about a virtual library, like the one at University
of California at Berkeley, Library of Congress or Barcelona
Open University Library will be presented during the whole
morning.
The afternoon
will be spent dealing with Colnodo efforts on the mounting
of specialized database on low cost system based on Linux.
Day 5
In the
morning we will continue the previous afternoon work allowing
each participant to develop a small database and mount it.
In the
afternoon the participants will finish mounting their projects
in a server.
Day 6
The participant’s
works will be presented, and awards given to the best efforts
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