ERCIM News No.31 - October 1997  Three Worlds collide - The
CLRC/DCI Web  by Victoria Marshal  There has long been a tension
between three computing worlds when it comes to the Web.
Database theorists have insisted that the information be
structured properly, the user interface people want web pages to
be navigable, while hypertext specialists look on in amazement
at the whole anarchic mess and remember how they had exactly the
same problems over 10 years ago...  For all sorts of reasons,
the DCI web has just been updated. When we started work on this,
one of the key features that we wanted from our new web was to
make greater use of various databases (and in turn to be able to
use the web database for purposes other than just for the web),
but that our web should not 'look' as though it had been
generated from a database.  After much discussion between the
database and user interface people, we have produced a web which
meets the criteria of both groups. Web pages are generated by a
series of scripts, one sc