Evaluation of Web content
Dear all, I wish to know the evaluation process of web content or web search results. How does one evaluate the web content??? Are there any specific standards??? Regards, Vandana Karande Information Specialist Corporate Development Reliance Industries Ltd. Tel No. 22847139 "Confidentiality Warning: This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s), are confidential, and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, re-transmission, conversion to hard copy, copying, circulation or other use of this message and any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return email, and delete this message and any attachments from your system. Virus Warning: Although the company has taken reasonable precautions to ensure no viruses are present in this email, the company cannot accept responsibility for any loss or damage arising from the use of this email or attachment." -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
There are a variety of ways like user feedback, rank list comparison, etc. Research is in progress in these areas Chudamani On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Vandana Karande wrote:
Dear all,
I wish to know the evaluation process of web content or web search results. How does one evaluate the web content??? Are there any specific standards???
Regards,
Vandana Karande Information Specialist Corporate Development Reliance Industries Ltd. Tel No. 22847139 "Confidentiality Warning: This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s), are confidential, and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, re-transmission, conversion to hard copy, copying, circulation or other use of this message and any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return email, and delete this message and any attachments from your system.
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My little bit on the topic. There are organization in various subject areas which issues some guidelines for site. I know such an organization for health related sites. It is Health on the Net Foundation - http://www.hon.ch/ . They evaluate a health related site and give a certificate of authenticity. They evaluate a site on a set of eight parameters. They call these parameters as code of conduct. [ http://www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html ] I am taking their "code of conduct" (visit the link above) as a base to give you a set of genernal parameters: (I hope the same/similar set of parameters can be used for evaluating other sites too). 1. Authoritative We should consider who are the authors of site. Govt.; Academic and Research Institutions are normally given higer priority (Even Google Scholar follows that policy). 2. Complementarity Clear indication that Information supports, but does not replace professional help. 3. Privacy Good sites lists out their privacy policies in relation to information submitted (like emails etc) by users. Good sites should not pass on this information to third parties or use it for spaming its users. 4. Attribution Look for attribution statements. Good sites cite the source(s) of published information and publication and updation dates for its pages. The dates should not be system generationed - some sites give today's date automatically generated ( Take it a negative practice if this is to indicate date of information ). 5. Justifiability If any claim of benefits and performance is made then look for justification and methodology for arriving at such a claim. 6. Transparency There should be clear indication of organisation or people behind the site and what is the purpose of their site. Is it for bussiness, advocacy, intellectual intestest or lobbinging. Look for accurate email and other contacts. 7. Financial disclosure Identify funding sources. 8. Advertising policy Advertising as such may not be bad, some good site give quality information and sustain from advertising revenue - like newspapers and magazines. However what should be seen is that advertisements are clearly indicated and seperated from the main content. The information should be unbaised on the site and should not be influenced by sponsors or the adversitors. I hope these could be used as broad guidelines for evaluating sites. --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. On Jan 22, 2008 10:31 AM, K.S. Chudamani <ksc@library.iisc.ernet.in> wrote:
There are a variety of ways like user feedback, rank list comparison, etc. Research is in progress in these areas
Chudamani
On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, Vandana Karande wrote:
Dear all,
I wish to know the evaluation process of web content or web search results. How does one evaluate the web content??? Are there any specific standards???
Regards,
Vandana Karande Information Specialist Corporate Development Reliance Industries Ltd. Tel No. 22847139 "Confidentiality Warning: This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the intended recipient(s), are confidential, and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any review, re-transmission, conversion to hard copy, copying, circulation or other use of this message and any attachments is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please notify the sender immediately by return email, and delete this message and any attachments from your system.
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