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The present article analyzes how the guiding principles of seven cooperative media are formulated and explores whether they transmit a clear idea of their value proposition. It observes whether they are accurate and transparent, if they specify information on media values, organizational structure, the business of the news, and stakeholders. For this purpose, cooperative enterprise statutes have been examined along with the internal regulations, the webpage information of the media analyzed, the codes of ethics, and the financing systems. The article concludes that the cooperative principles promoted by the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) are the basis for the guiding principles for the media’s profile, safeguarding their autonomy and fomenting a value proposition in which the integrated relationship with stakeholders is key, enhancing the principles of solidarity and subsidiarity.

Entrepreneurship is a complex, dynamic and multidimensional phenomenon that transforms spaces and territories. The effects of this process on economic and social dynamics are increasingly evident in the Cuban context. However, there has not been a thorough examination of cultural undertakings, in their relationship with institutions, and in their profoundly transforming role. Therefore, the objective of this article is to theoretically explore the topic of the cultural entrepreneurship, as a factor of territorial reconfiguration, as well as to lay the foundations on future research and conceptualizations on the subject. This article highlights the benefits of the articulated management between institutions and entrepreneurs in the field of arts and culture, the importance of the spatial approach in studies on the subject, and the relevance to highlight the creativity and heterogeneity of the cultural entrepreneurs. The article contributes in a reflexive way to a theoretical and methodological approach to cultural entrepreneurship and the territorial synergies that take place in the process of artistic and cultural creation from the Cuban perspective.

Italian cultural and creative industries are growing both in terms of economic value –-reaching 2.96% of the national GDP in 2015- and employment --attesting over one million people. These figures are quite optimistic, especially compared to the other Italian manufacturing sectors, which places cultural and creative industries in a significant position of the country’s economic landscape. In 2015, the Italian cultural and creative sector recorded a total economic value of 47.9 billion euros. 86% is direct revenues derived from activities directly linked to the creative chain such as conception, production and distribution of cultural and creative works and services. The remaining 14% comes from indirect revenues related to ancillary or ancillary assets. Direct economic values of all the creative and cultural sectors have been growing since 2015, only except the newspapers and periodicals –-this sector showed more than 8% drop. The sector that grew most in terms of direct economic value was music. The cultural and creative industries are ranked third in Italy from an occupational point of view after the construction sector and catering and hotel industry. Thanks to the important intellectual contribution, the creative industry is characterized by a high concentration of human capital.

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This paper (A critique to the anti-labor trends in the sciences of information recorded in documents) presents a critique to the anti-labor trends in the sciences of information recorded in documents. It is based on the critical librarianship with a critical epistemology to analyze and criticize the ideologies of bourgeoisie of its various kinds: neo-liberalism, global capitalism, and imperialism in general (e.g. Castells, 1996; Masuda, 1981), and in particular of the bourgeoisie within the sciences of information recorded in documents (e.g. Lau Noriega, 2007ª; 2007b; Gorman, 2001; Cronin, 1992; Mann, 1993; Rodríguez Gallardo, 2001; Hernández Pacheco, 2007; 2000; Uribe Tirado, 2005). It proposes some issues for debate for the followers of labor movements to demand in favor of the rights of the workers of information recorded in documents (e.g. librarians).

Television archives are engaged in a significant process of transformation involving everyday functions and procedures as well as their overall role in media organizations. The confluence of two elements produces this change: the complete digitization of the flow of production and the fragmentation and decentralization of the audio-visual market. The determining factors are identified, along with the risks and opportunities that media professionals must channel toward the development of a new model of audio-visual content management based on access and the hybridization of tasks and skills.

The importance of information content in corporate portals is analysed as it relates to users and user fidelity. The main functional aspects of a business portal are: customisation, content aggregation, presentation and navigation, searching, categorisation, integration of applications, collaboration and publication. Web services are introduced as standard elements into the portal through protocols such as xml, soap, wsdl and uddi. The article concludes by stressing the importance of technological and strategic factors as key elements in a business portal.

The article describes the use of outsourcing in the field of information, filling, archival and administrative services. It shows that it is possible to apply for these services an expert version of outsourcing . It describes the benefits of outsourcing for customer if the services are highly aggregated.

Which are the best ways to promote heritage? Of course, mass media, travel agencies, tourism offices, embassies,... but specially the Internet. The Internet attracts potential tourists looking for cultural information, but it is accessible to everyone. Are public resources in web sites of high quality? Do web sites give good information about museums?

This investigation intends to classify the students of the University of Informatics Sciences according to their academic behaviour using a set of Data Mining techniques like clustering, decision trees and inductive learning algorithms. The main goal of this work is to find hidden patterns and rules that define this behaviour, based on the relationship established between the scholarship level of the student’s parents, and their academic origins with their grades in the first year of their career. These results can help to improve the quality of the academic process in the UCI.

The paper explains the activity of AIDA at an European and a national level. AIDA is involved in studying professional competencies in information and documentation and in developing and promoting the goals and the achievements of DECID, DECIDoc and CERTIDoc projects through its representatives in ECIA and through the two working groups "Euroguida" (2001-2004) and "Certidoc" (2005-2006). It analyses the set of rules defined by CERTIDoc Consortium for the European system of certification of information professionals: "General Rules", "Evaluation Guide" and "Accreditation of assessors and constitution of juries". Finally, it announces AIDA's project to implement Italian certification according to CERTIDoc System.

The Spanish Ministries of "Education and Science" and "Industry and Energy" have commissioned the Information and Documentation Consortium of Catalonia for the present work in order to have a guideline of action in relation to the distribution of databases in Spain. The final report can be read on http://eprints.rclis.org/33474 Here the ANNEXES of the project are presented, with definitions and models.