WAP Interface To JISC 5/99 Project Web Sites

A survey of a WAP Interface to JISC 5/99 Project Web sites has been carried out. The survey makes use of the Google WAP conversion service.

The aim of the survey is primarily to investigate the ease with which project Web sites can be transformed. In this case a transformation service provided by Google is used to transform a Web site in HTML/XHTML into WML, the format used by WAP phones.

Note that the WML output from the Google conversion can be viewed using a WML-compliance browser, such as Opera.

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	WAP Interface Works?	Comments	View WML
1	ANGEL	Y		View
2	FAILTE	Y		View
3	ICONEX	Y		View
4	RESULTs Network	Y		View

 

Table 2: Enhancing JISC data services for Teaching and Learning

	Project	WAP Interface Works?	Comments	View WML
5	Biz/ed Virtual Learning Arcade	Y		View
6	CHCC	Y		View
7	Enhancing Beilstein CrossFire	Y		View
8	e-MapScholar	Y		View
9	Geo-Crosswalk Gazetteer		No Web site
10	Go-Geo!: The Geo- data Portal Project		No Web site
11	Timeweb	Y		View
12	Using Numerical Data	Y		View

 

Table 3: Images

	Project	WAP Interface Works?	Comments	View WML
13	ARTWORLD		No Web site
14	BIOMED	Y		Check
15	BuilDNER	Y		Check
16	Crafts Study Centre		No Web site
17	Designing Britain 1945-1975	Y		Check
18	Filter	Y	Some warning errors displayed.	Check
19	PICTIVA	Y		Check
20	Textile Images		No Web site

 

Table 4: Moving Image and Sound

	Project	WAP Interface Works?	Comments	View WML
21	Click and Go Video	Y		Check
22	HOTBED	Y		Check
23	LIFESIGN	Y		Check
24	TRILT	Y		Check

 

Table 5: Museum Content

	Project	WAP Interface Works?	Comments	View WML
25	Biota of Early Terrestrial Ecosystems	Y		Check
26	Digital Egypt for Universities	Y		Check
27	LEMUR	Y		Check
28	MIRACLE			No Web site
29	PATOIS	Y		Check
30	Virtual Norfolk Project	Y		Check

 

Table 6: Miscellaneous

	Project	WAP Interface Works?	Comments	View WML
31	EBONI	Y		Check
32	INHALE	Y		Check
33	PELICAN	Y		Check
34	VDML	Y		Check

 

Table 7: Infrastructure projects - JOIN-UP

	Project	WAP Interface Works?	Comments	View WML
35	Docusend	Y		Check
36	Xgrain	Y		Check
37	ZBLSA	Y		Check
38	ZETOC	Y		Check

 

Table 8: RDN projects

	Project	WAP Interface Works?	Comments	View WML
39	British Education Portal	Y		Check
40	Computing Gateway	Y		Check
41	Euro Subject Portal for the RDN		No Web site
42	History online for learning and teaching	Y		Check
43	Maths Portal		No Web site
44	NMAP	Y		Check
45	Physical Sciences Subject Portal for the RDN		No Web site
46	RDN Virtual Training Suite	Y		Check
47	SAD-I	Y		Check
48	SAD-II		No Web site

 

Table 9: Z projects

	Project	WAP Interface Works?	Comments	View WML
49	Gate-Z	Y		Check
50	JAFER	Y		Check
51	MIMAS Metadata for the DNER	Y		Check

 

Table 10: Evaluation projects

	Project	WAP Interface Works?	Comments	View WML
52	EDNER	Y		Check

 

Table 11: Studies

	Project	WAP Interface Works?	Comments	View WML
53	INSPIRAL	Y		Check

The information in the table was collected on 29^th October 2002.

Notes

Please note the following:

• Only the projects with a Web site have been analysed.
• Only the entry points have been analysed.
• Only an automated analysis has been carried out.
• The online version of this page allows the latest findings to be obtained.

Summary

A summary of the findings is given below.

Table 12: WAP Access

Yes	43	100%
No	0	0%

Nine projects had no Web site.