- to be eligible, a website must originate out
of a sound research or editorial project
- its focus must be on intensity, novelty and
reliability of content, not primarily on technology
- use of IT devices must be clearly validated
not per se, but on the basis of the creativity of the web site communication
project
- its authors must be clearly indicated and credits
acknowledged
- its objectives must be stated and its intended
audience identified
- its content must be scientific-review proof
- it must offer free access to its materials
and must neither have any commercial purpose nor rely heavily on
advertising, even if a moderate amount of pertinent advertising
for self-funding purpose may be admitted
- if publishing is its main objective, it must
be stated whether it is peer reviewed and who the members are of
its scientific board; if it publishes editions of classical texts,
sound philological criteria must be recognizable (original language,
completeness, paratextual apparatus)
- the site must be regularly updated and developed
according to its proclaimed agenda: each year the jugement is reviewed
- eligibility for the Best of the VL Italian
History Index requires that a site is high quality in its entirety
and not only in one single section.
- Sites are chosen through a broad discussion
between the members of the editorial board and a voting procedure.
The minimum requisites are that at least 5 members -from an editorial
board made of 9 members- have to vote; a majority of at least 4
positive votes is then necessary.
(Please have a look at the Quality
Principles for cultural Web sites: a handbook edited
by the European Union Minerva Working Group 5, Identification of user
needs, contents and quality criteria for cultural Web applicationsand
to their Digitisation
Guidelines: a selected list)
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