• innovative projects that demonstrate appropriate marrying of content to technologies (i.e., the focus must not be on the content per se but on how the content is appropriately and imaginatively exhibited within an e-culture framework)
  
• evidence that you have really thought through your proposal properly, viz:
• that your project is clearly and tightly focused on a quite specific and well-defined topic, with clearly specified goals and intended outcomes. By 'topic', I mean more than simply choice of content, more than whatever cultural or historical subject it is about; more importantly, I mean that as specifically an e-heritage project it has both focus and purpose
  
• that the subject matter is relevant to the module and that you're able to clearly and cogently argue its relevance, that the proposed project is feasible in respect of acquisition of content (you need to demonstrate that you know exactly where your content will come from and how you will acquire it)
• that you have given thoughtful consideration to IPR issues, that you have absolute certainty that you can acquire adequate content for your prototype without infringing the copyright of others or falling foul of copyright legislation, and that you will have measures in place to ensure the rights of any third parties (end-users, for example) who contribute content to your site
• thoughtful discussions of theoretical, intellectual, and technical issues that demonstrate that you've read (and can cite) supporting documents addressing the issues you're concerned with
  

• clear, error-free writing: since I expect you to consider your prototype as the foundations of a real project rather than a mere academic exercise, I therefore also expect the highest standards of professionalism in its presentation. Consequently marks will always be lost for vague or woolly writing, for poor spelling, for poor punctuation, for poor grammar, and in general for any indications in your implementation and your report that you have not shown sufficient care and attention to presentation.
  

Technical and administrative questions

• first, do nothing more at all until you have read and understood the system requirements. If you're required to edit plain text files (config files, for example), then make sure you know how to edit and set permissions on text files; if you need special software (Ant, Maven, Tomcat, or whatever else) installed, then ensure that you have downloaded that software before you begin. If you have strong doubts about your technical ability to install and configure a package, consider using a different package.
• if not already installed, then install Apache
• enable Apache and test it with "http://localhost"
• install PHP & MySQL, then test the installation by creating and loading a text file (name it, for example, test.php) containing just the following line: <?php phpinfo() ?>
  
• download and install either phpmyadmin or another database GUI, and use it to create a database for Joomla
• install Joomla