Conference paper
THE CIDOC WEB SITE – A CASE STUDY IN INFORMATION RE-USE
Richard Light
; West Sussex, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo
Abstract
The current CIDOC web site has become increasingly difÞ cult to maintain. It relies on the willingness of one member to update its content, and on other members providing him with relevant
material. Although it provides French as well as English content, it does so by including both languages in a single HTML page. Content from the web site cannot easily be used for other purposes, such as printed publications. This paper describes current efforts to re-invent the CIDOC web site so that it is an effective information resource for its users – the membership of CIDOC. The content of individual pages is now held as XML, allowing it to be used for other purposes. French and English versions of each page are stored separately, making it easier to work in a single language of one’s choice and opening up the possibility of adding other languages in the future. The whole “site map” is stored as a Topic Map, allowing a range of approaches to navigation to be deployed, including CRM-based Þ ltering. An online site updating framework has been developed. This allows suitably authorised CIDOC members to add and update both the structure and the content of the site directly, without the need for an intermediary. During the coming months we intend to issue newsletter articles on the web site, as PDF documents, and in print. The challenges encountered and lessons learnt while doing so will be described.
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Publication date:
1.6.2007.
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