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The participation of readers in the creation of information products increases the value of the media and the satisfaction of co-creators. Such involvement of the public especially affects productive processes, although without ignoring their participation in development and marketing, and implies a democratization of information, personalized experiences, and diverse points of view that favor informative pluralism. In this research we analyze an international sample of five digital native newspapers to verify the extent to which they allow their audiences to co-create content. We use an exploratory methodology to verify the existence of spaces designed for co-creation and prepare evaluation scales for the level of utility of these sites and examine their accessibility from the perspective of citizen empowerment, openness of content, and web architecture. The results show that the degree of implementation achieved by newspapers is lower than may be expected for purely digital media and provide a warning about the need to devise new formulas for co-creation and involve audiences more in generating content, while also indicating the need to review in depth the role of readers as sources. The limitations on citizen empowerment that derive from the absence of advertising in business models restrict open access, while web hierarchies hamper collaboration. The need for citizens to clearly identify which products have been produced by journalists versus co-creators is also diagnosed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This research analyzes and catalogs the thousands of works rescued and deposited in safe places by the Spanish Republic during the Spanish Civil War and checks the destination of these works during the postwar period under the Franco regime. A web site with a narrative and participative database, open and accessible, that would allow analysis, collaboration from other investigators and interested people was created. The objective of this site is to establish the confluence between historic and heritage-oriented inquiry and collaborative and open management to transmit to society the results of a pending investigation. The possibilities offered by the 2.0 semantic web and of artificial intelligence are taken advantage of in order to follow the destinations of the works. Free software is always used, with added algorithms and applications necessary for their optimization. These inputs will also become part of the public domain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Information dissemination has become a critical element of universities' strategic plans. Concerned about their position in the international rankings that evaluate this kind of institutions, universities also begin to worry about their information dissemination strategies and their institutional websites. This article addresses the main functions of the university website; the process of analysis, design and implementation in the production of this kind of websites; the minimum elements to be included in a university web style guide; and some key national and international style guide standards and references. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The intense digital change that is taking place in the world of cinema presents significant future challenges for film archives. This article reviews the extent to which the basis for the activities of film libraries founded in the 1930s remains valid in the information age, along with key debates questioning their identity and role in the 21st century. We explore the lines of film archives expansion that are being drawn in the current digital context, and finally offer a response to the crossroads that film libraries face today if they do not want to become isolated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Website requirements specification (WRS) is a document that describes the characteristics expected of a web site to be developed or modified, in order to ensure compliance. This is particularly important when site development is outsourced. This paper analyzes in detail the procedure for processing, structure and validation, with special attention to the functional requirements of a website. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The main objective of this paper is to show the process map for introducing the Accessibility Management System in the Saragossa city council web service. This map is a requirement of the Spanish Association for Standards and Certification (Aenor) for the "N" certification of ICT Accessibility, which guarantees users that an internet page is accessible. All public sector organizations are required by law to achieve this norm and display the "N" mark of certification.To identify the processes and design the process map, an expert reviewed documents and interviewed managers and staff. The processes were classified into strategic, key and support categories and so identified on the process map, which indicates sequences and the relationships between inputs and tasks. The results section describes the main activities and analyzes their inter-relationship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mobility and access to Web contents and services from any place having an internet connection are both advantages of using mobile devices like mobile phones, pdas, smartphones, ultra mobile PCs or ultra low cost PCs. However, new questions also arise, mainly related to content accessibility: their characteristics, connections and the way people in motion connect to the internet generate different requirements. In this paper a general landscape of the mobile web is drawn from a librarian's perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Web 2.0 and browsers are two very closely connected concepts. The reason is that browsers are the user agents that are needed to make navigating web 2.0 a reality. Within a very short span of time, new versions have been issued by the top three web browsers: Explorer, Firefox and Opera. In this article we examine and compare the new capabilities and functions of these three browsers in terms of the new web. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This work presents the results of a study of web sites of 230 OA digital repositories in 16 European countries. The analysis addresses the extent to which these repositories fulfil display characteristics of quality sites, over and above the quality of their content. The objective of this study is to verify whether web sites specifically committed to free access to information satisfy the quality criteria of accessibility, web positioning and quality of the source code. The results obtained find that accessibility must be improved upon, source code quality is merely acceptable, and web positioning is good. In short, bad practices were observed that should not occur in sites whose objective is to facilitate the free access to information. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current browsing scheme on internet users' minds means retrieving information via search engines. Thus, search engines have become main information brokers, and so we need to know very well how they operate, and then apply strategies to optimize our websites indexation and position in their indexes to fulfill users' expectations. This article is a study based in commonly accepted opinions in the webmasters international community, as well as official information available in search engines guidelines on which are the reasons why it is necessary to practice Search Engine Optimization techniques, which are the more recommendable and ethical techniques and which approximate results we can expect from them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]