XHML Conversion Analysis Of JISC 5/99 Project Entry Points

A pilot survey of the ease with which the home pages of JISC 5/99 projects can be converted to XHTML has been carried out. The survey makes use of the online Tidy service.

The aim of the survey is to see how easily pages can be repurposed and to discover if there are any approaches which are used which may cause difficulties in repurposing Web sites.

In the following table of the findings the project is deemed to have an entry point which can be successfully converted to XHTML if a comprehensible Web page is displayed. It should be noted that images which are linked to using a relative link will not be displayed. However in such circumstances the image's ALT text will be displayed.

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	Successful Conversion To XHTML?	Comments	Try It
1	ANGEL	Y		Check
2	FAILTE	Y	Original is XHTML	Check
3	ICONEX	N	Mostly blank page (use of Flash)	Check
4	RESULTs Network	Y		Check

 

Table 2: Enhancing JISC data services for Teaching and Learning

	Project	Successful Conversion To XHTML?	Comments	Try It
5	Biz/ed Virtual Learning Arcade	Y		Check
6	CHCC	N	Blank screen displayed - reason unknown	Check
7	Enhancing Beilstein CrossFire	Y		Check
8	e-MapScholar	Y		Check
9	Geo-Crosswalk Gazetteer		No Web site
10	Go-Geo!: The Geo- data Portal Project		No Web site
11	Timeweb	Y		Check
12	Using Numerical Data	Y		Check

 

Table 3: Images

	Project	Successful Conversion To XHTML?	Comments	Try It
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	N	Blank screen	Check
18	Filter	Y		Check
19	PICTIVA	Y		Check
20	Textile Images		No Web site

 

Table 4: Moving Image and Sound

	Project	Successful Conversion To XHTML?	Comments	Try It
21	Click and Go Video	N	Missing files due to use of frames	Check
22	HOTBED	Y		Check
23	LIFESIGN	Y		Check
24	TRILT	Y		Check

 

Table 5: Museum Content

	Project	Successful Conversion To XHTML?	Comments	Try It
25	Biota of Early Terrestrial Ecosystems	N	Displays directory containingredirect.htm file	Check
26	Digital Egypt for Universities	N	Page is redirected to other resource	Check
27	LEMUR	Y		Check
28	MIRACLE		No Web site
29	PATOIS	Y		Check
30	Virtual Norfolk Project	Y	Used new URL	Check

 

Table 6: Miscellaneous

	Project	Successful Conversion To XHTML?	Comments	Try It
31	EBONI	Y		Check
32	INHALE	Y		Check
33	PELICAN	N	Blank screen displayed - reason unknown	Check
34	VDML	Y		Check

 

Table 7: Infrastructure projects - JOIN-UP

	Project	Successful Conversion To XHTML?	Comments	Try It
35	Docusend	Y		Check
36	Xgrain	Y		Check
37	ZBLSA	Y		Check
38	ZETOC	Y		Check

 

Table 8: RDN projects

	Project	Successful Conversion To XHTML?	Comments	Try It
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	Successful Conversion To XHTML?	Comments	Try It
49	Gate-Z	Y		Check
50	JAFER	Y		Check
51	MIMAS Metadata for the DNER	Y		Check

 

Table 10: Evaluation projects

	Project	Successful Conversion To XHTML?	Comments	Try It
52	EDNER	Y		Check

 

Table 11: Studies

	Project	Successful Conversion To XHTML?	Comments	Try It
53	INSPIRAL	Y		Check

The information in the table was collected on 28^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: Conversion To XHTML

Successful Conversion	36	83.7%
Successful Conversion	7	16.3%

Note that nine projects had no Web site.