Providing Web access to a catalogue of British newspaper cartoons

This paper describes how the University of Kent Cartoon Centre catalogue was made accessible on the World Wide Web and analyses the effectiveness of the search site during the four years it has been online. The Cartoon Centre catalogue covers a wide range of British newspaper cartoon drawings and is unusual in being a substantial (over 90,000 records) online catalogue that also includes digital images of all the catalogued material. The paper describes some of the decisions that were made in putting the catalogue on the Web and then uses the evidence of the Web server logs to draw some conclusions about how successful the Web interface has been and how it might be improved in the future.