Information Sources and Searching on the World Wide Web20021G.G. Chowdhury and Sudatta Chowdhury. Information Sources and Searching on the World Wide Web. London: Library Association Publishing 2001. 174 pp., ISBN: 1‐85604‐394‐0 £29.95

2002 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 206-206
Author(s):  
Mark Kerr
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
The World

Patterns of Searching for Information on the World Wide Web: A Pilot Study

2003 ◽  
Vol 92 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1091-1096 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nobuhiko Fujihara ◽  
Asako Miura
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Task Type ◽  
The Other ◽  
The World ◽  
Selection Of ◽  
Search Domain

The influences of task type on search of the World Wide Web using search engines without limitation of search domain were investigated. 9 graduate and undergraduate students studying psychology (1 woman and 8 men, M age = 25.0 yr., SD = 2.1) participated. Their performance to manipulate the search engines on a closed task with only one answer were compared with their performance on an open task with several possible answers. Analysis showed that the number of actions was larger for the closed task ( M = 91) than for the open task ( M = 46.1). Behaviors such as selection of keywords (averages were 7.9% of all actions for the closed task and 16.7% for the open task) and pressing of the browser's back button (averages were 40.3% of all actions for the closed task and 29.6% for the open task) were also different. On the other hand, behaviors such as selection of hyperlinks, pressing of the home button, and number of browsed pages were similar for both tasks. Search behaviors were influenced by task type when the students searched for information without limitation placed on the information sources.

Trust in Virtual Communities

2011 ◽  
pp. 203-212
Author(s):  
Luis V. Casaló ◽  
Carlos Flavián ◽  
Miguel Guinalíu
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Social Groups ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Chat Rooms ◽  
The World ◽  
Community Concept ◽  
E Mail

Individuals are increasingly turning to computermediated communication in order to get information on which to base their decisions. For instance, many consumers are using newsgroups, chat rooms, forums, e-mail list servers, and other online formats to share ideas, build communities and contact other consumers who are seen as more objective information sources (Kozinets, 2002). These social groups have been traditionally called virtual communities. The virtual community concept is almost as old as the concept of Internet. However, the exponential development of these structures occurred during the nineties (Flavián & Guinalíu, 2004) due to the appearance of the World Wide Web and the spreading of other Internet tools such as e-mail or chats. The justification of this expansion is found in the advantages generated by the virtual communities to both the members and the organizations that create them.

A Survey of Web Ontology Languages and Semantic Web Services

2013 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-53 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandru Napoleon Sireteanu
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Semantic Web Services ◽  
Formal Ontology ◽  
Web Technologies ◽  
The World ◽  
Ontology Languages ◽  
In The Beginning

Abstract In the beginning World Wide Web was syntactic and the content itself was only readable by humans. The modern web combines existing web technologies with knowledge representation formalisms. In this sense, the Semantic Web proposes the mark-up of content on the web using formal ontology that structure essential data for the purpose of comprehensive machine understanding. On the syntactical level, standardization is an important topic. Many standards which can be used to integrate different information sources have evolved. Beside the classical database interfaces like ODBC, web-oriented standard languages like HTML, XML, RDF and OWL increase in importance. As the World Wide Web offers the greatest potential for sharing information, we will base our paper on these evolving standards.

scholarly journals Information Sources Used by Garden Writers

1999 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 451-454
Author(s):  
M.P. Garber ◽  
K. Bondari
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
Source Information ◽  
Public Gardens ◽  
Botanical Gardens ◽  
University Personnel ◽  
Landscape Plants ◽  
The World

Results of a national survey indicated that the top four sources of information used by garden writers for new or appropriate plants were nursery catalogs, botanical and public gardens, seed company catalogs, and gardening magazines. More than 50% of the participating garden writers reportedly used these four sources a lot. The most frequently used books and magazines were Horticulture Magazine (34.6%), Manual of Woody Landscape Plants (24.1%), and Fine Gardening (23.7%). About 29% of the garden writers used the World Wide Web to source information and the two most widely used type of sites were universities and botanical gardens and arboreta. A high percentage of garden writers desire greater or more frequent communications with botanical gardens and arboreta (90.4%), university personnel (87.4%), and plant producers (86.3%).

Sanitization and Anonymization of Document Repositories

2009 ◽  
pp. 2129-2139 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yücel Saygin ◽  
Dilek Hakkani-Tür ◽  
Gökhan Tür
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Access Control ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Data Type ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
The World ◽  
Document Repositories

Information security and privacy in the context of the World Wide Web (WWW) are important issues that are still being investigated. However, most of the present research is dealing with access control and authentication-based trust. Especially with the popularity of WWW as one of the largest information sources, privacy of individuals is now as important as the security of information. In this chapter, our focus is text, which is probably the most frequently seen data type in the WWW. Our aim is to highlight the possible threats to privacy that exist due to the availability of document repositories and sophisticated tools to browse and analyze these documents. We first identify possible threats to privacy in document repositories. We then discuss a measure for privacy in documents with some possible solutions to avoid or, at least, alleviate these threats.

Semantic Integration and Interoperability among Portals

2011 ◽  
pp. 881-886
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Kotis
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Software Agents ◽  
Semantic Integration ◽  
The World ◽  
Unified View ◽  
Global Access

In distributed settings, such as that of the World Wide Web, where a large number of information sources and services reside, portals provide a single point of global access via a single and unified view. This view is circumscribed by a specific conceptualization and a specific vocabulary whose entries provide lexicalizations of the concepts used for shaping information, data, and services provided. Ontologies play a key role to shaping information, as they provide conceptualizations of domains. Different portals may use different or partially overlapping ontologies for shaping information, or even different schemata for storing data. This affects the integration of information from different portals, and the interoperability between the services that portals provide. Consequently, this situation affects recall and precision of information retrieval, and sets limitations to the composition (and decomposition) of services among portals for serving clients’ (users or software agents) requests

Sanitization and Anonymization of Document Repositories

2006 ◽  
pp. 133-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yücel Saygin ◽  
Dilek Hakkini-Tur ◽  
Gökhan Tur
Keyword(s):  
World Wide Web ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Access Control ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Data Type ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
The World ◽  
Document Repositories

Information security and privacy in the context of the World Wide Web (WWW) are important issues that are still being investigated. However, most of the present research is dealing with access control and authentication-based trust. Especially with the popularity of WWW as one of the largest information sources, privacy of individuals is now as important as the security of information. In this chapter, our focus is text, which is probably the most frequently seen data type in the WWW. Our aim is to highlight the possible threats to privacy that exist due to the availability of document repositories and sophisticated tools to browseand analyze these documents. We first identify possible threats to privacy in document repositories. We then discuss a measure for privacy in documents with some possible solutions to avoid or, at least, alleviate these threats.

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