This will also be followed through in more conventional forms of text, involving narrative experiments, multiple interpretations, and in time, a site for conversation and debate. In short, different voices and different views. The nature of Web publishing enables us to take the same core data and restructure it in a multiplicity of ways, providing the possibility of different meanings to different audiences. We clearly believe that publishing this sort of data via the Internet has a lot to offer, but we are also aware that it not a panacea. Although this is not intended as a technical document, technology does pose its challenges.
Simple Web authoring itself is relatively easy.
A few years ago you would have needed a good working knowledge of HTML and a lot of patience to get very far. Nowadays there is a wide range of 'editors' around that make much of what is contained in our Web site quite a trivial task. More interactive elements that can be included are still pretty much the preserve of the programmer, but we can expect this to change in time as well. Many of us may still be connecting to the Internet by ageing telephone systems which again place constraints on the kind of data that can practically be delivered. Perhaps the greater challenge is that of the structuring of our information, and its subsequent provision.