UKOLN AHDS HTML Analysis Of JISC 5/99 Project Entry Points



A pilot survey of the HTML compliance of the home pages of JISC 5/99 projects has been carried out. The survey makes use of the W3C HTML compliance checking tool.

You can use the service yourself either by going to the HTML Validator or by entering a URL in the following box:

Findings

A summary of the findings is given in the following table. The data was taken from the listing of DNER Development Projects.

Table 1: Access to Teaching and Learning Resources
  Project Compliant? HTML Version Errors Comments Try It
1 ANGEL N HTML 4 Incorrect format for DOCTYPE   Check
2 FAILTE Y XHTML 1     Check
3 ICONEX N Not specified No document type declaration   Check
4 RESULTs Network N Not specified No document type declaration   Check

 

Table 2: Enhancing JISC data services for Teaching and Learning
  Project Compliant? HTML Version Errors Comments Try It
5 Biz/ed Virtual Learning Arcade Y HTML 4     Check
6 CHCC N Not specified No document type declaration   Check
7 Enhancing Beilstein CrossFire N Not specified No document type declaration   Check
8 e-MapScholar N HTML 4   2 errors Check
9 Geo-Crosswalk Gazetteer       No Web site  
10 Go-Geo!: The Geo- data Portal Project       No Web site  
11 Timeweb N Not specified No document type declaration   Check
12 Using Numerical Data N HTML 4 Many errors   Check

 

Table 3: Images
  Project Compliant? HTML Version Errors Comments Try It
13 ARTWORLD       No Web site  
14 BIOMED N HTML 4 9 errors   Check
15 BuilDNER N Not specified No document type declaration   Check
16 Crafts Study Centre       No Web site  
17 Designing Britain 1945-1975 N Not specified No document type declaration   Check
18 Filter N HTML 4 2 errors   Check
19 PICTIVA N Not specified No document type declaration   Check
20 Textile Images       No Web site  

 

Table 4: Moving Image and Sound
  Project Compliant? HTML Version Errors Comments Try It
21 Click and Go Video N Not specified No document type declaration   Check
22 HOTBED N Not specified No document type declaration   Check
23 LIFESIGN N Not specified No document type declaration   Check
24 TRILT N Not specified No document type declaration   Check

 

Table 5: Museum Content
  Project Compliant? HTML Version Errors Comments Try It
25 Biota of Early Terrestrial Ecosystems N Not specified No document type declaration   Check
26 Digital Egypt for Universities N Not specified No document type declaration   Check
27 LEMUR N HTML 3.2 Many errors   Check
28 MIRACLE         No Web site
29 PATOIS N Not specified No document type declaration   Check
30 Virtual Norfolk Project N Not specified No document type declaration   Check

 

Table 6: Miscellaneous
  Project Compliant? HTML Version Errors Comments Try It
31 EBONI N Not specified No document type declaration   Check
32 INHALE N HTML 4 Many errors   Check
33 PELICAN N Not specified Many errors Converted from MS Word document Check
34 VDML N Not specified No document type declaration   Check

 

Table 7: Infrastructure projects - JOIN-UP
  Project Compliant? HTML Errors Comments Try It
35 Docusend Y HTML 4     Check
36 Xgrain Y HTML 4     Check
37 ZBLSA N XHTML 1 2 errors   Check
38 ZETOC Y XHTML 1     Check

 

Table 8: RDN projects
  Project Compliant? HTML Errors Comments Try It
39 British Education Portal Y HTML 4     Check
40 Computing Gateway N HTML 4 2 errors   Check
41 Euro Subject Portal for the RDN       No Web site  
42 History online for learning and teaching N HTML 4 1 error   Check
43 Maths Portal       No Web site  
44 NMAP Y Not specified No document type declaration   Check
45 Physical Sciences Subject Portal for the RDN       No Web site  
46 RDN Virtual Training Suite N HTML 4 5 errors   Check
47 SAD-I N Not specified No document type declaration   Check
48 SAD-II       No Web site  

 

Table 9: Z projects
  Project Compliant? HTML Errors Comments Try It
49 Gate-Z N HTML 4 4 errors   Check
50 JAFER N XHTML 1 2 errors   Check
51 MIMAS Metadata for the DNER Y XHTML 1     Check

 

Table 10: Evaluation projects
  Project Compliant? HTML Errors Comments Try It
52 EDNER Y XHTML 1     Check

 

Table 11: Studies
  Project Compliant? HTML Errors Comments Try It
53 INSPIRAL N Not specified No document type declaration   Check

The information in the table was collected on 2nd October 2002.

Notes

Please note the following:

Summary

A summary of the findings is given below.

Table 12A: Compliance
Compliant 9 21%
Not Compliant 34 79%
Table 12B: HTML Type
HTML 3.2 1 2.3%
HTML 4 14 32.5%
XHTML 1 6 14.0%
DTD Not Specified 22 51.2%

Nine projects had no Web site.

A summary in graphical format is given below.

Pie chart of HTML compliance   Histogram of HTML types