PAN-European Exploitation of the Results of the Libraries Programme - EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin EXPLOIT 1 Exploit Interactive Web Magazine Marieke Napier UKOLN, University of Bath Bath, BA2 7AY

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 2 The Exploit Interactive Verifiable Objectives “The Exploit Interactive Web magazine workpackage covers the production of an online magazine for dissemination of information of Telematics for Libraries projects and related information of interest to the European Library and Information Science community.” Workpackage Description

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 3 The Exploit Interactive Specification Exploit Interactive was: –To be published for 7 issues (once every three months) –To be an accompanying measure to the EXPLOIT project –Designed to promote awareness, disseminate and exploit reusable project applications and results Its aim was to provide quality content, be innovative and be standards compliant

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 4 The Exploit Interactive Architecture Runs on a Windows NT 4 server Microsoft Site Server 3.0 Internet Information Server (IIS) 4.0 Full search capabilities Metadata Management Uses Microsoft Active Server pages (ASP) Uses Server Side Includes (SSI) Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 5 The Exploit Interactive Design Conducted by ILRT, University of Bristol Navigational bar with links to all areas Context-sensitive navigational bars Sub-menu pages for Features, Regular Columns, News & Events etc. Cascading Style Sheets for consistency

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EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 9 The Exploit Interactive Contents Editorial Features Articles Regular Columns e.g. At the Event News and Events Et Cetera - Java Crossword, Software in Use Author/graphics guidelines Copyright, Credits, Contact us 404 error page Print all and browse pages

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 10 The Exploit Interactive Advisory Articles –EC Funding –URLs for Telematics for Libraries Project Pages –Web Accessibility Initiatives –Promoting your Web Site –Performance Indicators For Web Sites –WebWatching Telematics For Libraries Project Web Sites

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 11 The Exploit Interactive Search Facility Exploit Interactive uses a SiteServer search facility –Fielded searches by Author, Title, Abstract and full text –Dublin Core (DC) metadata to be used –DC metadata (HTML format) was also created using ASP fragment –Can easily create metadata in other formats (e.g. RDF)

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 12 The Exploit Interactive Information Dissemination Process message to Authors message to mailing lists Press releases to a number of magazines/E-zines Following up referrals Submission to search engines Poster sessions given at conferences Additional presentations and workshops given Notification service of new issues using Netmind

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 13 The Exploit Interactive Auditing Process Check for broken links –Whose responsibility? –Icon change Check for accessibility - Bobby HTML Validation Statistical Evaluation –Externally-Hosted –Purchased Statistics Services Link Popularity Summary In October 2000: 322 pages 3406 internal links 5488 external links ~100 broken links Summary In October 2000: 322 pages 3406 internal links 5488 external links ~100 broken links

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 14 The Exploit Interactive Research Areas Translation integration Print all facility Integration of search facilities Database creation for reports Statistics Hypernews discussion forum

EXPLOIT German Libraries Institute Berlin 15 The Exploit Interactive Statistics 102 Individual authors Coverage of 32 Telematics for Libraries Projects 137 Articles including news and editorials 194 Links to the site on Altavista 5488 External links 67,369 Visitor sessions between 23 April 1999 and 30 October 2000 Average of 121 visitors a day 1,475,929 Entire site hits