The first issue of Internet Archaeology has just been published at:
http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue1
We have followed the model of a print journal quite closely but have made
the sections of each paper much shorter and snappier than their print
counterparts would have been and have integrated cgi-scripts serving data
and catalogues into several of the papers.
Inline text searching of each paper is provided using a built-in function
of the Web server, WN. This requires absolutely no maintenance and does
not create separate index files. Full indexing will take place after our
second issue, scheduled for February 1997. More complex text retrieval is
provided for some parts of the journal through cgi-scripts which use the
GNU bibliographic programs gindxbib and lookbib which are part of the
groff distribution. These allow multiple keywords comprising at least the
first four letters of the words to be sought.
One of the discussion points about Web publication is how a 600-page book
might work on the Web. Well, one of our papers incorporates a 627-page
PhD thesis (on the Development of the Clay Tobacco Pipe Kiln in the
British Isles), plus several hundred images. We think it works quite
well, given that it is a work of reference rather than the sort of thing
you might want to sit down and read from cover to cover.
Comments and suggestions for improvement for Issue Two are invited...
Alan Vince, Managing Editor, Internet Archaeology
http://intarch.ac.uk/index.html
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