1. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk Quality Assurance For Museum Web Sites: Examples Of Checking Tools Brian Kelly UKOLN University of Bath Bath, BA2 7AY Email B.Kelly@ukoln.ac.uk URL http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ UKOLN is supported by:

2. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 2 Examples Of Checking Tools Types of tools: Desktop (standalone or integrated with authoring tool) Server Web-based Integrated with browser Combination Tools may also be: Freely available Licensed Licensed with limited functionality available for free

3. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 3 Desktop Tools Examples of desktop tools: HTML checker integrated with authoring tool Standalone HTML checkers Link checkers Xenu Link Sleuth link checker, free from CSE HTML Validator: licensed and free versions from.

4. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 4 Server-based Tools Server-based tools: Often licensed Can be configured to run automatically (unlike normal use of desktop checkers) Some desktop checking tools are also available as server products NIST have a number of server-based tools which are designed to support usability testing. See.

5. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 5 Web-based Tools Web-based Tools : Provide a Web interface to testing services No software to install Many useful free Web- based services available

6. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 6 Integrated With Browser Bookmarklets: Typically provide access to Web-based services Easier to use due to integration with browser Can be useful for Web authors See: 

7. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 7 Combined Approach A simple approach used in UKOLN is to provide access to checking services by appending a phrase to any URL. For example: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ qa-focus/,validate will validate the page This is based on a simple Apache server-side redirect See < http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/qa-focus/ documents/papers/iadis-2003/poster/ >

8. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 8 Commercial Approach Commercial Testing Tools Examples given have been based on freely available tools Is there a need to consider use of licensed testing tools? What additional functionality do such tools provide? See Benchmarking exercises for examples of commercial testing tools

9. A centre of expertise in digital information managementwww.ukoln.ac.uk 9 Questions Any questions?