An interesting paper on the School of Fine Arts in Athens and the development of
"information technology to provide a virtual university for artists -
students & alumni "
June S
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Utilizing complementary know-how: advanced fine arts meeting
information technology to provide a virtual university for artists -
students & alumni
User Services Conference archive
Proceedings of the 30th annual ACM SIGUCCS conference
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Pages: 122 - 129
Year of Publication: 2002
ISBN:1-58113-564-5
Authors Evangelos Sakkopoulos University of Patras, Patras, Greece
Athanasios Tsakalidis University of Patras, Patras, Greece
Sponsors SIGUCCS: ACM Special Interest Group on University and College
Computing Services
ACM: Association for Computing Machinery
Publisher ACM New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT
Since 1837, Advanced School of Fine Arts (ASFA
http://www.asfa.gr/) in
Athens, Greece produced practically all Greek painters, sculptors and
printmakers and it has currently enrolled approximately 2,000
students. For several years now ASFA closely collaborates with the
oldest computer engineering institution in the country, Computer
Engineering & Informatics Dept (CEID
http://www.ceid.upatras.gr/),
University of Patras, Greece. Together we have elaborated a
significant number of projects bringing closer fine arts and
information technology. Under a common umbrella, librarians, academics
and artists from ASFA, computer specialists from CEID, coupled with
network and laboratory administrators supporting the Greek
Universities network backbone (GUnet
http://www.gunet.gr/) in ASFA
have jointly undertaken a visionary project: "Eurydice", a virtual
university for both students and alumni artists.The scope is to
provide the ASFA students and alumni artists with a convenient way to
communicate ideas and knowledge in a life-long learning sense. We
imagined an effective web service that is mastered during academic
years and is used for long after their completion.The invasion of IT
as well as the dominating role of ASFA for the reception of modern
artistic trends by the wider public emerged the need for an
Internet-based meeting-point that would provide integrated access to
ASFA Library of Art, a range of automatically Renewable Educational
Material on Fine Arts and on Artist-oriented IT topics, supported by a
powerful set of Communicational Tools and Support Services with
Personalization features that evolve over time, from the first day in
ASFA until years later as mature artist-visitors.This paper will
address the following topics: restructural changes followed the CEID
know-how "invasion"; re-engineering of existing IT supporting services
and procedures; the methodology followed for the requirements
gathering, the conceptual design, the navigational design, the
abstract interface design and implementation; the pilot phase
feedback; training the help desk and administrators; populating the
service in ASFA community.
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Probably y a wonderful programme and a fine web site - but I cannot
raise <http://www.asfa.gr> either in IE or Firefox
June S
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