ABS: Koehler, Classifying Web sites and Web pages

[Gretchen Whitney]

PT J
AU Koehler, WC
TI Classifying Web sites and Web pages: the use of metrics and URL
   characteristics as markers
SO JOURNAL OF LIBRARIANSHIP AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
LA English
DT Article
SN 0961-0006
PU BOWKER-SAUR LTD
C1 Univ Oklahoma, Sch Lib & Informat Studies, 401 W Brooks, Room
   120, Norman, OK 73019 USA.
   Univ Oklahoma, Sch Lib & Informat Studies, Norman, OK 73019 USA.
ID WORLD-WIDE-WEB; INFORMATION; CYBERSPACE; LIBRARIES
AB Points to the way in which computer scientists and librarians
   working with the World Wide Web are turning to traditional
   library and information science techniques, such as cataloguing
   and classification, to bring order to the chaos of the Web.
   Explores cataloguing opportunities offered by the ephemeral
   nature of materials on the Web and examines several of the
   latter's unique characteristics. Suggests the coupling of
   automated filtering and measuring to the Web record cataloguing
   process, with particular reference to the ephemeral nature of
   Web documents and the ability to measure Uniform Resource
   Locator (URL) and Web document characteristics and migrate them
   to catalogue records using automated procedures. Reports
   results of an ongoing longitudinal study of 361 randomly
   selected Web pages and their Web sites, the data being
   collected weekly using the Flashsite 1.01 software package.
   Four basic approaches to ordering; information on the Web were
   studied: postcoordinate keyword and full-text indexes;
   application of both precoordinate and postcoordinate filters or
   identifiers to the native document by either authors or
   indexers; use of thesauri and other classification schemes; and
   bibliometric techniques employing mapping of hypertext links
   and other citation systems. Concludes that off-the-shelf
   technology exists that allows the monitoring of Web sites and
   Web pages to 'measure' Web page and Web site characteristics,
   to process quantified changes, and to write those changes to
   bibliographic records. Capturing semantic or meaningful change
   is more complex, but these can be approximated using existing
   software.
BP 21
EP 31
PG 11
JI J. Libr. Inf. Sci.
PY 1999
PD MAR
VL 31
IS 1
GA 184GX
PI E GRINSTEAD
RP Koehler WC
   Univ Oklahoma, Sch Lib & Informat Studies, 401 W Brooks, Room 120, Norman, OK 73019 USA.
J9 J LIBR INF SCI
PA MAYPOLE HOUSE, MAYPOLE RD,, E GRINSTEAD RH19 1HH, W SUSSEX,
   ENGLAND
UT ISI:000079603700003
ER

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