Michelangelo - Sharing national culture

Partners' Institution:

Connectis srl

Project's period (from/to):

February 2008 - June 2008

WPs concerned:

WP 5 - Development of the Michelangelo Portal and web Site

Objectives of activities carried out:

Connectis, carries out the role of technical partner in the framework of the MICHELANGELO project. The tasks carried out by Connectis during the various phases of the project during the first year can be sub-divided in the following way:

A. Phase 1: Development of technical material for the project website and portal
o Project Website http://michelangelo.pixel-online.org/info
o Portal http://michelangelo.pixel-online.org

B. Phase 2: Development of material for the website and portal
o Choice of Template
o Specific conformities
o W3C – HTML 4.01
o W3C – CSS
o Creation, publication and management of the project website http://michelangelo.pixel-online.org/info
o Creation, publication and management of the project portal http://michelangelo.pixel-online.org
o Creation, publication and management of the News section of the portal (http://michelangelo.pixel-online.org/news.php)

C. Phase 3: Publication & creation of the graphic of the Brochures
o Kick Off Meeting (Florence 17th - 18th January 2008)
o 2° Meeting (19th and 20th June 2008 in Carlisle.)
o 3° Meeting
o Final Meeting

Time period:

February 2008 - June 2008

Description of activities carried out:

Project Portal
Definition of the structure of the MICHELANGELO portal

The MICHELANGELO portal has been developed and is visible at the following (url) address:
• http://michelangelo.pixel-online.org

This portal constitutes the platform used for the promotion of the project, the consultation of the database of Art Sources evaluations, access to the Events section and the searching of useful tools.

The portal is divided in the following areas::
• Administration Area
o Administration of the portal contents
o Administration of the database (documents, Art sources and Artists and Artwork)
• User Area
o Database access: The database is suitable for the upload of documents Artists and Artwork in the country involved in the project during 10 centuries
o Art Sources
o Access Events area
o Area Meetings
 Access to the Chat
 Access to the Forum
o Area News
o Area Members

The work has been carried out in the following phases:
Analysis:
o analysis of the objectives,
o analysis of the human internal and external
o analysis of software which could be used in the project

Completed 70%
To complete 30%

• Planning
o Planning of the story-board (map of portal, menu, applied areas, functioning)
o Graphic planning
 Elaboration of the graphic drafts
 Proposal and approval
o Planning of the formatting of texts
o Planning of the dynamic modules
o Planning of the MySql Database

Completed 100%
To complete 10%


Development of the structure of the MICHELANGELO portal
The work follows the following phases
• Development
o Development of the Html template based on the graphics supplied
o Planning of the formatting of the texts
o Development of the new dynamic modules in php with access the MySql Database
o Implementation of the html template with modules in php
o Assembling of each module
o Testing the local version
o Publication and testing online
o Maintenance
• Systems management
o Systematic management of the web server
o Management of the DNS
o Implementation of MySQL

• Insertion of contents
o Insertion of textual contents

Completed 90%
To complete 10%

Outcomes:

The web Site of the project, responding at the URL:
http://michelangelo.pixel-online.org

Evaluation of the work undertaken:

Process evaluation:
- Positive feedback from the members of the work group;
- Positive feedback from the partners during the meeting

Outcome evaluation:
- Positive outcome since the activities from WP 5 were finished successfully in time.