Decided in the end that there isn't enough time to re-implement the scrolling picture menu myself, so I've brought JQuery into the project. I'm also using it for AJAX, since it's already there. We'll see how robust it is these days. The menu is working, and the AJAX retrieval of item data is working. I've also rewritten the search so that it reloads the page, which is simpler than using AJAX for each search.

I still don't have info from PAB about the locations in files from which specific bits of metadata need to be drawn, and I've also noticed some duplication of data which is making me a bit confused, so I've had to stop for the moment until I can get definite info from her. I think I'll also need to get the names.xml file, and that means the item retrieval will have to be much more complicated than it currently is, because I'll have to draw in data from the central repository file.