Future enhancements
In order to exploit the potential of its Web pages to the
full, the Journal of Roman Military Equipment Studies will be
introducing a range of online services. These will complement, rather
than replace, the paper journal itself and will initially fall into
three categories:
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A consolidated index
for volumes 1 to 11 (further volumes will be added as they appear). This has already been implemented.
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Multilingual summaries
for every paper so far published. The languages included will be
English, French, German, and Spanish. These have been frequently
requested, but would be expensive to produce on paper for every
article.
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Supplementary information to accompany
articles published in the journal. A good example would be colour
photographs of finds, expensive to print on paper, but easy and cheap
to place on the Web. Likewise, three-dimensional VRML models or video
clips could be incorporated. The only condition on the use of such
facilities will be that the actual article should not be dependent upon
the Web material, merely enhanced by it.
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