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Future-Proofing Your Web Service



A presentation on Future-Proofing Your Web Service was given at the ILRT Lunchbyte seminar on Friday 21 July 2000 at ILRT, University of Bristol.

Abstract

Many Web developers will of heard of RDF, XML, XSL and many other TLAs. But what are they? When will they arrive? Do I really need them? Will I have to throw away my Web site in order to move to a next generation of the Web (as happened with Gopher)? In this LunchByte Seminar Brian Kelly, UKOLN, University of Bath, will describe some of the new developments on the Web and the implications for Web site developers.

Slides

Slides
[Powerpoint 97/2000 format] - [HTML format]

URLs

The following Web sites may be demonstrated in the seminar.

SOSIG
Example of an academic Web site which provides a commercial news feed.
Screaming Media
Example of a commercial Web site which provides news feed.
Cultivate Interactive
Example of a Web magazine which uses a remote statistical service.
EditThisPage
Example of a remote, Web-based content management system.
eGroups.com
Example of a mailing list with value-added Web service.
Intranets.com
Example of a remote Intranet management system.
Using Externally-Hosted Web Services
Ariadne, issue 23
Using Externally-Hosted Web Services: : Good Idea or Bad?
Slides from talk at JUSW, July 2000

Surveys Of The University of Bristol Web Site

A number of automated surveys of the University of Bristol Web Site have been carried out:

Accessibility Audit
The Bobby Java application was used to report on the accessibility of the main University of Bristol Web Site on 17 July 2000 (to level 4 links only).
MS SiteServer Analysis
The MS SiteServer Analysis program was used to carry out a partial survey of report main University of Bristol Web Site on 18 July 2000.
Servers
The Netcraft service was used to report on the Web servers used in the University of Bristol domain.
Link Coverage
AltaVista was used to report on the number of links to resources on Web servers in the University of Bristol domain.
Nos. of links to Bristol (main Web site) -
Nos. of links to Bristol (all Web sites)
Nos. Of Resources Indexed
AltaVista was used to report on the number of pages indexed.
Nos. of pages on main Web site -
Nos. of pages on all Web sites