HTML Analysis Of JISC 5/99 Project Entry Points Update (May 2003)

A follow up survey of the HTML compliance of the home pages of JISC 5/99 projects has been carried out (May 2003). The previous survey carried out in October 2002 is also available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/surveys/web-10-2002/html/ for comparison.

The survey makes use of the W3C HTML compliance checking tool.

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

An extra check has also been added to the survey and makes use of the Web Design Group HTML compliance checking tool. The recursive validator will check up to 100 pages on a Web site.

You can use the service yourself by going to the Web Design Group Validator.

Findings

A summary of the findings is given in the following table. The data was taken from the listing of QA Focus Projects database(no longer available).

Note: Comp? is short for Compliant?

Table 1: Access to Teaching and Learning Resources

	Project	Comp?	HTML Version	Errors	Comments	Recursive	Try It
1	ANGEL	Y	XHTML 1			Numerous errors	Check - Recursive
2	FAILTE	Y	XHTML 1			Numerous errors	Check - Recursive
3	ICONEX	N	Not specified	No character encoding labeling		Numerous errors	Check - Recursive
4	RESULTs Network	N	Not specified	No document type declaration		Error retrieving - forbidden by robots.txt	Check - Recursive

 

Table 2: Enhancing JISC data services for Teaching and Learning

	Project	Comp?	HTML Version	Errors	Comments	Recursive	Try It
5	Biz/ed Virtual Learning Arcade	Y	XHTML 1			Numerous errors and error retrieving - forbidden by robots.txt	Check - Recursive
6	CHCC	Y	XHTML 1			Numerous errors - 23 pages checked	Check - Recursive
7	Enhancing Beilstein CrossFire	N	Not specified	No document type declaration		Numerous errors - 2 pages checked	Check - Recursive
8	e-MapScholar	N	HTML 4	Several errors		Numerous errors - 64 pages checked - some pages not retrieved	Check - Recursive
9	Geo-Crosswalk Gazetteer				No Web site
8	Go-Geo!: The Geo- data Portal Project	N	XHTML 1	Several errors		Numerous errors - 1 page checked	Check - Recursive
11	Timeweb	N	HTML 4.01	4 errors		Numerous errors - 3 pages checked	Check - Recursive
12	Using Numerical Data	N	Not specified	No character encoding labeling		Numerous errors - 100 pages checked	Check - Recursive

 

Table 3: Images

	Project	Comp?	HTML Version	Errors	Comments	Recursive	Try It
13	ARTWORLD	N	HTML 4.01	Several errors		Numerous errors - 100 pages checked	Check - Recursive
14	BIOMED	N	Not specified	No character encoding labeling		Numerous errors - 100 pages checked	Check - Recursive
15	BuilDNER				No Web site
16	Crafts Study Centre	N	Not specified	No document type declaration		Numerous errors - 65 pages checked	Check - Recursive
17	Designing Britain 1945-1975	N	Not specified	No character encoding labeling		Numerous errors - 65 pages checked	Check - Recursive
18	Filter	N	HTML 4	2 errors		Numerous errors - 7 pages checked	Check - Recursive
19	PICTIVA	N	Not specified	No document type declaration		Numerous errors - 2 pages checked	Check - Recursive
20	Textile Images				No Web site

 

Table 4: Moving Image and Sound

	Project	Comp?	HTML Version	Errors	Comments	Recursive	Try It
21	Click and Go Video	N	Not specified	No document type declaration		Numerous errors - 100 pages checked	Check - Recursive
22	HOTBED				No Web site
23	LIFESIGN	N	Not specified	No document type declaration		Numerous errors -1 page checked	Check - Recursive
24	TRILT	N	Not specified	No character encoding labeling		Numerous errors - 13 pages checked	Check - Recursive

 

Table 5: Museum Content

	Project	Comp?	HTML Version	Errors	Comments	Recursive	Try It
25	Rhynie Chert	N	Not specified	No document type declaration		Numerous errors - 93 pages checked	Check - Recursive
26	Digital Egypt for Universities	N	Not specified	No document type declaration		Numerous errors - 1 page checked	Check - Recursive
27	LEMUR	N	HTML 3.2	Many errors		Numerous errors - 7 pages checked	Check - Recursive
28	MIRACLE	N	Not specified	No character encoding labeling		Numerous errors - 14 pages checked	Check - Recursive
29	PATOIS	Y	HTML 4.01			Error retrieving - forbidden by robots.txt	Check - Recursive
30	Virtual Norfolk Project	N	Not specified	No document type declaration		Numerous errors - 100 pages checked	Check - Recursive

 

Table 6: Miscellaneous

	Project	Comp?	HTML Version	Errors	Comments	Recursive	Try It
31	EBONI	N	Not specified	No document type declaration		Numerous errors - 100 pages checked	Check - Recursive
32	INHALE	N	HTML 4	Many errors		Numerous errors - 98 pages checked	Check - Recursive
33	PELICAN	N	Not specified	No document type declaration	Converted from MS Word document	Numerous errors - 16 pages checked	Check - Recursive
34	VDML	N	Not specified	No document type declaration		Numerous errors - 80 pages checked	Check - Recursive

 

Table 7: Infrastructure projects - JOIN-UP

	Project	Comp?	HTML	Errors	Comments	Recursive	Try It
35	Docusend	N	Not specified	No character encoding labeling		Numerous errors - 100 pages checked	Check - Recursive
36	Xgrain	N	HTML 4	2 errors		Numerous errors - 69 pages checked	Check - Recursive
37	ZBLSA	N	XHTML 1	6 errors		Numerous errors - 29 pages checked	Check - Recursive
38	ZETOC	Y	XHTML 1			Numerous errors - 100 pages checked	Check - Recursive

 

Table 8: RDN projects

	Project	Comp?	HTML	Errors	Comments	Recursive	Try It
39	British Education Portal	N	No character encoding labeling			Numerous errors - 1 page checked	Check - Recursive
40	Computing Gateway	N	HTML 4	3 errors		Numerous errors - 80 pages checked	Check - Recursive
41	Euro Subject Portal for the RDN				No Web site
42	History online for learning and teaching	N	HTML 4	4 errors		Numerous errors - 80 pages checked	Check - Recursive
43	Maths Portal				No Web site
44	NMAP	N	Not specified	No document type declaration		Numerous errors - 100 pages checked	Check - Recursive
45	Physical Sciences Subject Portal for the RDN				No Web site
46	RDN Virtual Training Suite	N	HTML 4	5 errors		Numerous errors - 100 pages checked	Check - Recursive
47	SAD-I	Y	HTML 4.01			Numerous errors -26 pages checked	Check - Recursive
48	SPP	N	XHTML 1.0	10 Errors		Numerous errors - 26 pages checked	Check - Recursive

 

Table 9: Z projects

	Project	Comp?	HTML	Errors	Comments	Recursive	Try It
49	Gate-Z	N	Not specified	No character encoding labeling		Numerous errors - 6 pages checked	Check - Recursive
50	JAFER	Y	XHTML 1.0			Numerous errors - Error retrieving some pages - 100 pages checked	Check - Recursive
51	MIMAS Metadata for the DNER	Y	XHTML 1			Numerous errors - Error retrieving some pages - 67 pages checked	Check - Recursive

 

Table 10: Evaluation projects

	Project	Comp?	HTML	Errors	Comments	Recursive	Try It
52	EDNER	N	XHTML 1	1 error		1 error - 1 page checked	Check - Recursive

 

Table 11: Studies

	Project	Comp?	HTML	Errors	Comments	Recursive	Try It
53	INSPIRAL	N	Not specified	No document type declaration		Numerous errors - 100 pages checked	Check - Recursive

The information in the table was collected on 28^th May 2003.

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 1A: Compliance Compliant 9 20% Not Compliant 37 80%

Table 1B: HTML Type HTML 3.2 1 2% HTML 4 11 24% XHTML 1 11 24% DTD Not Specified 23 50%

Seven projects had no Web site.

The number of compliant 5/99 project entry points has remained the same but the actual projects compliant has changed. Note that more sites now have Web sites - previously 9 were without a site, now seven are without a site. More sites have less error messages.

The number of sites without a DTD remains the same, which is disapointing, but more sites are now using XHTML 1 which is encouraging.

A summary in graphical format is given below.