Armanda Rodrigues

Daniela Prado, Armanda Rodrigues, Nuno Correia et al.

We are currently prioritizing home activities, avoiding human contact, and carrying out external activities mostly by necessity. Therefore, and due to the loss of adhesion to cultural events on the part of the population, the cultural digital transformation process has been boosted, aiming to reach interested communities through digital media. The ACOA platform supports the organization of multiple sources of information related to creative processes behind complex artworks and their trajectories over time. This information is of great interest to conservators and curators, as well as to the general public, as it allows to document changes in the artwork, from the moment it was conceived by the artist, until its most recent exhibition. This platform houses a chronological evolution of the work, through the contextual dissemination of associated multimedia content. Works by the Portuguese artist Ana Vieira (1940-2016) were chosen as case studies for the implementation of the platform.

Ana Isabel Fernandes, Miguel Goulão, Armanda Rodrigues

The development of web applications that manipulate geo-referenced information is often supported by Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), al-lowing a fast development cycle for high quality applications. APIs can be used by programmers with different expertise levels and choosing an adequate API may have a dramatic impact on the productivity achieved by those programmers. Our goal is to compare maps APIs with respect to their usability. We compare three different APIs: the Google Maps JavaScript API, the ArcGIS API for JavaScript, and the OpenLayers JavaScript Mapping Library. Our comparison is supported by a set of software metrics and is performed in two orthogonal ways: the comparison of three implementations of the same system prototype, each using one of the APIs under scrutiny; the comparison of the APIs specifications. The main results of the study are related to the size of the APIs, with the Google API being significantly smaller than the others.