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Accessing our archival and manuscript heritage

Accessing our archival and manuscript heritage. Backend system Steering group meeting Oct 2004 Richard Butterworth. Overview. Architecture Maintainable mark up Browser proofing Dead link spotting Glossary. Architecture. HTML pages. Nightly processing. Maintainers. Users. Content.

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Accessing our archival and manuscript heritage

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  1. Accessing our archival and manuscript heritage Backend system Steering group meeting Oct 2004 Richard Butterworth Accessing our archival and manuscript heritage

  2. Overview... • Architecture • Maintainable mark up • Browser proofing • Dead link spotting • Glossary Accessing our archival and manuscript heritage

  3. Architecture... HTML pages Nightly processing Maintainers Users Content Present- ation Dynamic content Accessing our archival and manuscript heritage

  4. Maintainable mark up... • A simple, cut down version of HTML... • Trading flexibility against complexity • A nice easy to use editor • like Dreamweaver, but not nearly as complex • Good documentation, and example pages... • XML dialect, therefore portable and compatible... Accessing our archival and manuscript heritage

  5. Browser proofing • SENDA compliance is ‘simply’ a matter of splitting content from presentation • HTML4 and CSS • But there’s a problem... Accessing our archival and manuscript heritage

  6. Browser proofing... MIE6 friendly document HTML4 CSS document SHMML document Pre-processor Anything else we feel like Accessing our archival and manuscript heritage

  7. Dead link spotting... • Usually in HTML... • <a href=“http://someaddress/”>Link</a> • In SHMML... • <as> • <address=“http://someaddress/”> • <address=“http://anotheraddress/”> • <address=“http://yetanotheraddress/”> • Link • </as> • The first working link is used... Accessing our archival and manuscript heritage

  8. Glossary... • Glossary of terms stored in XML file... • Automatically marked up into the web pages... • Change the glossary, changes automatically propagate to the web pages... Accessing our archival and manuscript heritage

  9. Summary • Hide as much complexity from the maintainers as possible... • Get the system to spot problems and warn the maintainers... • Clearly document what the maintainers have to do to support the system... Accessing our archival and manuscript heritage

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