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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