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PREFACE 
Chapter 1. WEB SITES OF CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS: 
MAIN ISSUES OF PROMOTING AND MAINTAINING, EXAMPLES

• 1. General Ideas About Good Website 
  • 1.1 Web Site Growth Steps
  • 1.2 Tips for a Good Website
    • 1.2.1 Page Design
    • 1.2.2 Orientation
    • 1.2.3 Graphics
    • 1.2.4 Text
• 2. What is Special with Cultural Webs? 
  • 2.1 Cultural at First: Presenting a Good Content
  • 2.2 Traditional Culture in Cyber Culture Environment
    • 2.2.1 Cyber Culture
    • 2.2.2 Netiquette
  • 2.3 Educational Web Site
• 3. Cultural Organizations Online: Examples
  •  3.1 Types of Cultural Sites 
    • 3.1.1 Presentational Site of Cultural Organization 
    • 3.1.2 Sites Presenting Cultural Content
  • 3.2 Cultural Organizations Online: Lithuania 
    • 3.2.1 Periodicals
    • 3.2.2 Presentational Sites of Lithuanian Cultural Organizations
    • 3.2.3 Portals
  • 3.3 Cultural Organizations Online: World Panorama
    • 3.3.1 Periodicals 
    • 3.3.2 Presentational Sites Of Cultural Organizations In the World
    • 3.3.3 Portals
    • 3.3.4 Educational Sites
• 4. Promotion: Helping People to Find Your Website
  • 4.1 How to Survive with Non-Commercial Content? 
  • 4.2 Promoting Your Web Site: Web Site's Promotion Forms
  • 4.3 Search Engines
    • 4.3.1 What Are They For?
    • 4.3.2 Selecting a Search Engine
    • 4.3.3 How does They Work?
  • 4.4 Meta Information
  • 4.5 Reciprocal Linking
  • 4.6 Advertising
    • 4.6.1 Press Releases 
    • 4.6.2 Banner
    • 4.6.3 LinkExchange (http://www.linkexchange.com)
• 5. Importance of Maintaining: Don't Let your Site Die
  • 5.1 Maintain Your Web Site
  • 5.2 Keeping Site up to Date 
  • 5.3 Making User Come Back

• REFERENCES AND COMMENTS 
• Power Point Slides1-14 for the Chapter 1

Chapter 2. CULTURAL SUBJECT GATEWAYS ON THE WEB 
ACCESSING DIGITIZED INFORMATION VIA NEW INTERNET-BASED TOOLS

• Introduction 
• 1. What is a Subject Gateway?
  • 1.1 Building Subject Gateways 
    • 1.1.1 Strategic Issues 
    • 1.1.2 Information Issues
    • 1.1.3 Technical Issues
    • 1.1.4 Additional Services
• 2. New Approaches and Methods for Assisting Users
  • 2.1 Selective Internet Guide
    • 2.1.1 The Characteristics of the System
    • 2.1.2 Using the System 
  • 2.2 Subject Oriented Gateway 
    • 2.2.1 Software Aspects 
    • 2.2.2 Role of Administrators
  • 2.3 Example of Application in the Field of Culture 
    • 2.3.1 Objectives
    • 2.3.2 Justification 
    • 2.3 4 Outputs
    • 2.3.5 Beneficiaries
• REFERENCES 
• Power Point Slides1-16 for the Chapter 2

Chapter 3. CREATING E-BOOKS AND E- JOURNALS 

• 1. Electronic publishing
  • 1.1. Advantages of e-publishing 
  • 1.2. Limitations of e-publishing
  • 1.3. Organisations of electronic publishers
• 2. Electronic books 
  • 2.1. Advantages of e-books
  • 2.2. Categories of electronic book publishing
    • 2.2.1. Commercial e-publishing
    • 2.2.2. Subsidy e-publishing
    • 2.2.3. Self-publishing
  • 2.3. Types of e-books
  • 2.4. Creating e-book
    • 2.4.1. HTML 7
    • 2.4.2. PDF 
    • 2.4.3. Rocket E-book
  • 2.5. Tips for creating your e-book: 
  • 2.6. E-books and their collections
    • 2.6.1. Projects of e-books
    • 2.6.2. Websites of e-books
• 3. E-journals
  • 3.1. Characteristics of e-journals 
    • 3.1.1. Two basic types of e-journals
    • 3.1.2. The salient features of electronic journals available on the Web
    • 3.1.3. Identifiers of e-journals.
    • 3.1.4. Licensing, pricing, intellectual property rights 
  • 3.2. Creating e-journal
    • 3.2.1. The World Wide Web 
    • 3.2.2. The basic stages 
    • 3.2.3. Planning
    • 3.2.4. Realisation I: Composing Website
    • 3.2.5. Realisation II: Publication on the Web 
    • 3.2.6. Practical advises
  • 3.3. Examples of e-journals on Web
• REFERENCES
• Power Point Slides1-29 for the Chapter 3

Chapter 4. WEB-BASED TRAINING

• 1. E-Learning 
  • 1.1. The Learning Management System
  • 1.2. Use of Educational Technologies
• 2. Tools 
  • 2.1. To buy or to develop own classroom or course?
  • 2.2. Viewing Tools
  • 2.3. Authoring Tools
  • 2.4. Communication Tools
  • 2.5. Integrated Distributed Learning Environments
• 3. Powerful Training 
  • 3.1. Features of Powerful Training
  • 3.2. Instructional Strategies 
  • 3.3. Web-based Training Approaches
  • 3.4. Web-Based Instruction Structures
• 4. The Design Process
  • 4.1. Analysis
  • 4.2. Designing the Structure
  • 4.3. The Layout
• 5. Production 
  • 5.1. Content Preparation
  • 5.2. Content Distribution
• 6. Online Learner Assessment
  • 6.1. Forms of Assessment
  • 6.2. Assessment Design 
  • 6.3. Implementing a Test 
  • 6.4. Tools
  • 6.5. Test Creation
• 7. Evaluation
  • 7.1. Types of Evaluation
  • 7.2. Evaluating the Quality of a Web-Based Training System
  • 7.3. CASE STUDY: Learning material evaluation form 
• 8. Bibliography 
• 9. Resources on Internet
• 10. Glossary of this Chapter Main Terms 
• 11. Power Point Slides1-28 for the Chapter 4
• 12. SPECIAL WEB SITE FOR WEB-BASED TRAINING (HTML format)

Chapter 5. DIGITAL ARCHIVES, COLLECTIONS
 USING NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES FOR PROVIDING BETTER ACCESS TO
 AND SAFEGUARDING OF THE MOST VALUABLE CULTURAL DOCUMENTS

• 1. Acknowledgements
• 2. Objectives
• 3. Type of Material Considered
• 4. Digitisation Versus Microfilming
• 5. Selection for Digitising
• 6. From What ?
• 7. Requirements
• 8. Meeting the Requirements by Selecting Appropriate Digitisation Techniques
• 9. Software Tools Used
• 10. Typical Solutions
• 11. Cataloguing Electronic Versions of Documents
• 12. Access, Reproduction, Copyright
• 13. Products Produced from Digital Version of Documents
• 14. Preservation of Digitised Documents. Examples
  • 14.1 Archivo General de Indias, Spain
  • 14.2 UNESCO Projects
  • 14.3 Digitisation Project in Hungary 
• 16. Additional Information 
• REFERENCES
• Power Point Slides1-12 for the Chapter 5

Chapter 6. ADVANCED TECHNIQUES OF IMAGE PROCESSING AND 
THEIR USE FOR SPREAD OF DIGITALIZED CULTURAL VALUES

OVERVIEW OF THE IMAGE COMPRESSION TECHNIQUES FOR 
CREATING DIGITAL ARCHIVES AND PRESENTATION ON THE WEB

• Introduction 
• 1. Overview of Image Compression Techniques
  • 1.1 Standard and New Image Formats
    • 1.1.1 Summary Table of Standard Formats
    • 1.1.2 Summary Table of New Image Formats
    • 1.1.3 Graphics Interchange Format (GIF)
    • 1.1.4 Portable Network Graphics (PNG)
    • 1.1.5 Joint Bilevel Group (JBIG)
    • 1.1.6 Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG)
    • 1.1.7 Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG)
    • 1.1.8 Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID)
    • 1.1.9 Image Compression Program DjVu
    • 1.1.10 Wavelet Transform-Based Compression Standard (WSQ)
    • 1.1.11 Scaleable Internet/Intranet LuraWave Format (LWF)
    • 1.1.12 Lightning Strike Image Compression (COD)
    • 1.1.13 Wavelet Image Files (WIF)
    • 1.1.14 Fractal Image Format (FIF)
• 2. Special Formats Suitable for The Presentation of Scanned Documents on the Internet 
  • 2.1. Disadvantages of GIF and JPEG Formats for Compression of Documents 
  • 2.2. New Formats Based on Wavelet Techniques
    • 2.2.1 Wavelet Based Format DjVu
    • 2.2.2 New Standard of Image Compression LuraDocument (LDF)
    • 2.2.3 Wavelet Based format MrSID 
    • 2.2.4 Comments on Usability of New Compression Techniques 
  • 2.3. The List of Pictures Demonstrating Strength of New Compressing Techniques and Pictures
• REFERENCES 
• Power Point Slides1-80 for the Chapter 6

Annex A. GLOSSARY OF TERMS AND ABREVIATIONS 

Annex B. ELECTRONIC MEDIA IN CULTURAL EDUCATION: 
TRAINING OF TRAINERS AND FUTURE PRODUCERS OF NEW MEDIA. 

WORKSHOP IN VILNIUS, 10-12 OCTOBER 2000, LITHUANIA. 
PROGRAM, LIST OF THE PARTICIPANTS AND CONCLUSIONS.

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