Maria Pia Guermandi
Istituto Beni Culturali della Regione Emilia Romagna
via Farini, 17
Bologna
40124 Italy
Email: mpguermandi@ibc.regione.emilia-romagna.it

Maria Pia Guermandi has a degree in Classical Antiquity and a Ph.D. in Archaeology from the University of Bologna Since September 1987 she has been working at Istituto Beni Culturali of Regione Emilia Romagna where she has been involved in several research projects about applications of new technologies to cultural heritage as project leader (main areas of interest: cataloguing data bases, G.I.S., web communications). With this respect she is also involved in some European Research Projects.Since 1996 she is responsible of the IBC (Istituto Beni Culturali) web site (chief editor).

Since 1994 she is team leader of a research project, approved and financed by the Italian National Research Council (C.N.R.). Since last year she is part of a research team at Politecnico di Milano that analyses technology-based communication of Cultural Heritage and changing methodological paradigms, enabled or enhanced by technology.

Author of several publications and articles (more than 60), she is part of Editorial Board of scientific reviews as "Archeologia e Calcolatori" and "IBC. Informazioni, Commenti, Inchieste sui Beni Culturali".

Maria Pia will present Evaluating the features of Museum Websites (The Bologna Report)