12-28-2006, 07:08 PM
Quote:I didn't guess it would be anywhere near as good as this though, Mike. This is a fantastic resource for both research and teaching that makes Hadrian's Wall (and associated features) available to everyone in a way that no book could. It also shows what can be done through the integration of different media.
At the moment the most serious limitation is that any one 'collection' (as M$ call them) is limited to 200 items, hence my original goal of all elements of Hadrian's Wall in one collection was torpedoed. Second to that is that the raw material of the collection is 'locked' into the server and what I am always after is data interchangeability and extractability (the sort of 'mashups' that are done by the BBC's experimental boffins with Google maps and BBC traffic data etc). I also worry slightly about the seemingly flaky nature of the server holding the data. Sometimes it's there... and sometimes not!
Things can only improve with time. Meanwhile, I may have some more 'inspiration' for your students in due course ;-)
Mike Bishop
