CSS Analysis Of JISC 5/99 Project Entry Points

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

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

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

Findings

Table 1: Access to Teaching and Learning Resources

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
1	ANGEL	-	N			Check
2	FAILTE	Y	Y			Check
3	ICONEX	N	Y	2 errors		Check
4	RESULTs Network	N	Y	2 errors		Check

 

Table 2: Enhancing JISC data services for Teaching and Learning

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
5	Biz/ed Virtual Learning Arcade	Y	Y			Check
6	CHCC	N	Y		Stylesheet file not found	Check
7	Enhancing Beilstein CrossFire	Y	Y			Check
8	e-MapScholar	Y	Y			Check
9	Geo-Crosswalk Gazetteer				No Web site
10	Go-Geo!: The Geo- data Portal Project				No Web site
11	Timeweb	Y	Y			Check
12	Using Numerical Data	-	N			Check

 

Table 3: Images

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
13	ARTWORLD				No Web site
14	BIOMED	N	Y			Check
15	BuilDNER	-	N			Check
16	Crafts Study Centre				No Web site
17	Designing Britain 1945-1975	-	N			Check
18	Filter	Y	Y			Check
19	PICTIVA	N	Y			Check
20	Textile Images				No Web site

 

Table 4: Moving Image and Sound

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
21	Click and Go Video	Y	Y			Check
22	HOTBED	N	Y		CSS file not found	Check
23	LIFESIGN	-	N			Check
24	TRILT	N	Y	5 errors		Check

 

Table 5: Museum Content

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
25	Biota of Early Terrestrial Ecosystems	-	N			Check
26	Digital Egypt for Universities	-	N			Check
27	LEMUR	-	N			Check
28	MIRACLE					No Web site
29	PATOIS	N	Y	Many errors		Check
30	Virtual Norfolk Project	-	N			Check

 

Table 6: Miscellaneous

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
31	EBONI	-	N			Check
32	INHALE	Y	Y			Check
33	PELICAN	N	Y		Invalid XML resource - created from MS Word	Check
34	VDML	Y	Y			Check

 

Table 7: Infrastructure projects - JOIN-UP

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
35	Docusend	N	Y	Multiple errors		Check
36	Xgrain	Y	Y			Check
37	ZBLSA	N	Y		System identifier (URI) in the DOCTYPE rule.	Check
38	ZETOC	Y	Y			Check

 

Table 8: RDN projects

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
39	British Education Portal	N	Y	1 error		Check
40	Computing Gateway	Y	Y			Check
41	Euro Subject Portal for the RDN				No Web site
42	History online for learning and teaching	N	Y	10 errors		Check
43	Maths Portal				No Web site
44	NMAP	N	Y	6 errors		Check
45	Physical Sciences Subject Portal for the RDN				No Web site
46	RDN Virtual Training Suite	N	Y	4 errors		Check
47	SAD-I	-	N			Check
48	SAD-II				No Web site

 

Table 9: Z projects

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
49	Gate-Z	N	Y	8 errors		Check
50	JAFER	Y	Y			Check
51	MIMAS Metadata for the DNER	Y	Y			Check

 

Table 10: Evaluation projects

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
52	EDNER	Y	Y			Check

 

Table 11: Studies

	Project	Compliant?	Style Sheet Used?	Errors	Comments	Try It
53	INSPIRAL	-	N			Check

The information in the table was collected on 24^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 12A: Stylesheet Available Yes 31 70% No 13 30%

Table 12B: Compliance Compliant 15 48% Not Compliant 16 52%

Nine projects had no Web site.

A summary in graphical format is given below.