Web Tools and Standards in the Web 2.0 Era for Activities Dissemination

Abstract

Working with the web as a platform to disseminate information about projects or activities pursued by organizations and institutions requires a throughout knowledge of web technologies, standards and software platforms to ensure the best solutions for specific situations are enacted. The paper describes practical examples of this selection process by analyzing the technologies, methods and tools available to disseminate projects results or to implement specific web activities pursued within a specific group of a research institute. The aim is to stress on the difficult of choosing a solution and the necessity of adhering to web standards in order guarantee accessibility and in some way a future device-independence and to ensure a long-term life-cycle for the web applications. The adopted solutions range over single web applications or services developed by using different programming languages to specific packages like content management systems according to the kind of complexity of the requests. The work shows as different languages and interfaces could be introduced for developing web-based applications according different context, and their adoption strictly depends on specific project requests.