Abstract
An advantage of having a web
site with documents conforming to
the MIRCdocument schema is that the content can be easily indexed and shared over the Internet. Different
approaches are available
to make the content of an existing web site accessible through the MIRC community. These options include: 1)
creation of an "index
card" for each document, 2) rebuilding the documents as MIRCdocuments, and 3) development of a software layer necessary to communicate with a query
service for teaching file
systems based on a database. Advantages and disadvantages of these different approaches are
discussed in view of our
experience in making the content of an existing web site MIRC compatible. In our case we used a combination
of approaches. We
preferred index cards for PowerPoint presentations
and for complex HTML documents, and we favored rebuilding the documents as MIRCdocuments for
pages generated from a
database.