Discovering Content Pattern of the Library Web Sites
Jadranka StojanovskiRuđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatiahttp://[email protected]
“No stereotype of libraries as quiet, uneventful places could survive the 1990’s. Whatever stability and predictability libraries once had as ordered storehouses of the treasures of the printed word were shattered by the digital revolution. The intellectual function of libraries -- to acquire, arrange, and make accessible the creative work of humankind -- is being transformed by the explosion in the production and dissemination of information in digital form, especially over global networks.”
LC - 21: A Digital Strategy for the Library of Congress
Who are our users?
students faculty/employees researchers & scientists staff of the university/institute local community – general public librarians international audience
...
From RBI log files analysis RBI library Web site (10th anniversary!) with 1500
visits/day 23,93% employees of Ruđer Bošković Institute Croatian Universities - 10% of total accesses different institutes and hospitals take part with
about 2,5% main Croatian companies like “Pliva”, “Ina” and
“Podravka” are participating with 0,6%
in spite of the fact that all Web pages are both in Croatian and English language since 1994 - only 31% of total hits are assigned to visitors that come outside “.hr” domain
Web site evaluation
Purpose or focus of the Web site Audience or target for the Web site Access to information on the site Logical design or construction of the site Visual design considerations Site informationSite information
Selection process
Purpose or focus of the Web site to support scientific research and HE
Audience or target for the Web site scientists teachers students
Access to information on the site free
Selection
Google advanced search Language = English “lib” or “library” in URL limit to country domain
(.at, .hr, .it, .hu, .fi, .cz, .ie, .de, .uk, .si) first five scientific libraries were selected library must have its own directory in the HTML
tree structure of the institution or its own domain
library must have the English version of Web site
national libraries are not included
10 European countries Austria Croatia Czech Republic Hungary Finland Germany Ireland Italy Slovenia UK
Academic and research institute’s libraries
hr American College of Management and Technology Faculty of Graphic Arts Faculty of Special Education and Rehabilitation Ruđer Bošković Institute Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries at Research Institute of Molecular Pathology Research Institute for Symbolic Computation Institut für Computergraphik und Algorithmen University of Graz Mozarteum University Library it The Abdus Salam ICTP Library Free University of Bozen The Johns Hopkins University SISSA Library Institute of Information Science and Technologies (ISTI) hu Central European University Library MTA SZTAKI is the Computer and Automation Research
Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences KFKI campus University of Veszprém Library of the Institute of Enzymology fi Helsinky University Library Joensuu University Institute of Technology Vaasa Polytechnic Helia, Helsinki Business Polytechnic
cz CERGE-EI Library English College in Prague Resource Centre Institute of Physics University Library International Baptist Theological Seminary si Central Technological Library Nova Gorica Polytechnic University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics,
Department of Physics, Astronomical Observatory University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Zootechnical
Department Faculry of Medicine, Central Medical Library ie Trinity College Library Dublin University College Cork NUI Maynooth Library Online University of Limerick Dublin City University uk Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Cambridge University Library John Rylands University Library of Manchester University of Edinburgh Glasgow University Library de DESY Library The Szilárd Library at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) Friedrich Ebert Foundation University of Heidelberg
Xenu’s Link Sleuth as robot tool multi-threaded spidering software that checks
Web sites for broken links robot modified for that purpose (thanks Tilman!) it is free, works extremely fast and gives a
useful output with the link title listed in the same order of the links that are given on the page
Link description
• URL address• status• type• size
• title
• date• level• links out• links in• server• error
List of categories
single-concept descriptors, easy to assign (this approach sacrifices term relationships and context)
22 main categories/concepts were defined experience from ten years of the RBI web
site Xenu reports were filtered using C++
program – adding sub-terms from Web sites into categories
INFO ASK LIBRARIAN
NEWS REFERENCE LIBRARY
COLLECTIONS ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
DIGITAL LIBRARY CATALOGUES
SUBJECT GATEWAYS SEARCHING
SEARCH ENGINES ACCESS
SERVICES CIRCULATION AND ILL
EDUCATION EDUCATION SUPPORT
INFRASTRUCTURE AND EQUIPMENT PUBLISHING
FILE FORMATS LIS
ENTERTAINMENT OTHER
NUMBER OF LINKS BY CATEGORY
0 2000 4000 6000 8000 10000 12000 14000
AUSTRIA
CROATIA
CZECH REP.
FINLAND
GERMANY
HUNGARY
IRELAND
ITALY
SLOVENIA
UK
INFO ASK LIBRARIAN NEWS
REFERENCE LIBRARY COLLECTIONS ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
DIGITAL LIBRARY CATALOGUES SUBJECT GATEWAYS
SERVICES CIRCULATION AND ILL SEARCHING
SEARCH ENGINES EDUCATION EDUCATION SUPPORT
PUBLISHING INFRASTRUCTURE AND EQUIPMENT ACCESS
FILE FORMATS LIS ENTERTAINMENT
OTHER
General info (1) ADDRESS LOCATION OF THE
LIBRARY VIRTUAL TOUR FLOOR PLAN PARKING
PHOTOCOPYING CHARGES
HOLDINGS DESCRIPTION TERMS & CONDITIONS CONDITIONS OF USE LIBRARY RECORD REGULATION RULE FEES
WELCOME TO THE LIBRARY BASIC INFORMATION ON USING THE LIBRARY INFORMATION ABOUT VISITOR INFORMATION GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE LIBRARY INFO ABOUT ABOUT THE VISIT US ABOUT US
General info (2)
OPENING HOURS LIBRARY STAFF DISABILITIES STATISTICS CONTACT CONTACT US FEEDBACK STAFF
QUESTIONS & ANSWER FAQ
SURVIVAL GUIDE READER'S GUIDE FURTHER ASSISTANCE FINDING AID A TO Z INDEX A TO Z GUIDE
POLICY STRATEGY DISCLAIMER PRIVACY POLICY LIBRARY MISSION MISSION
Info - policies
0 50 100 150 200 250
AUSTRIA
CROATIA
CZECH REP.
FINLAND
GERMANY
HUNGARY
IRELAND
ITALY
SLOVENIA
UK
POLICY STRATEGY DISCLAIMERPRIVACY POLICY LIBRARY MISSION MISSION
General-info pages lack:
guides, assistance, finding aids welcome to the library basic information visitor information
Collections
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900
AUSTRIA
CROATIA
CZECH REP.
FINLAND
GERMANY
HUNGARY
IRELAND
ITALY
SLOVENIA
UK
BIBLIOGRAPHY PERIODICAL JOURNAL THESIS BOOK
E-”packages”
0 100 200 300 400 500 600
SCIENCEDIRECT
SPRINGERLINK
SWETSWISE
EBSCOHOST
EMERALD
PUBMED
KLUWER
JSTOR
SLAC
AUSTRIA
CROATIA
CZECH REP.
FINLAND
GERMANY
HUNGARY
IRELAND
ITALY
SLOVENIA
UK
Collection – reference library
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 800 900 1000
AUSTRIA
CROATIA
CZECH REP.
FINLAND
GERMANY
HUNGARY
IRELAND
ITALY
SLOVENIA
UK
ENCYCLOPEDIA DICTIONARY LIBRARIES
DIRECTORY STANDARD HANDBOOK
COLLEGE SCHOOL MAP
Catalogs
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
AUSTRIA CROATIA CZECH REP. FINLAND GERMANY HUNGARY IRELAND ITALY SLOVENIA UK
CATALOGUE CATALOG OPAC
Search engines
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
160
AUSTRIA CROATIA CZECH REP. FINLAND GERMANY HUNGARY IRELAND ITALY SLOVENIA UK
SEARCH ENGINE ALTAVISTA GOOGLE YAHOO
Education
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700
INTRODUCTION TO
INSTRUCTION
EVALUATION
EDUCATION
WORKSHOP
TRAINING
LEARNING
SEMINAR
HOW TO
COURSE
HELP
AUSTRIA
CROATIA
CZECH REP.
FINLAND
GERMANY
HUNGARY
IRELAND
ITALY
SLOVENIA
UK
Education
educational content offered through library web pages is not connected enough with education process at the university
libraries should cooperate with teachers in order to provide better support to students
syllabus, curriculum, exams, teach*... should be more used
lack of tutorials
Infrastructure & equipment
0 50 100 150 200 250 300
AUSTRIA
CROATIA
CZECH REP.
FINLAND
GERMANY
HUNGARY
IRELAND
ITALY
SLOVENIA
UK
PHOTOCOPYING WIRELESS NOTEBOOK COMPUTERPRINTER LAPTOP NETWORK
Entertainment
0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700
SHOPPING
PERSONAL
SPORTS
NATION
HEALTH
WORLD
GAME
JOB
TV
AUSTRIA
CROATIA
CZECH REP.
FINLAND
GERMANY
HUNGARY
IRELAND
ITALY
SLOVENIA
UK
LIS issues
0 50 100 150 200 250 300 350
VIRTUAL LIBRARY
LIBRARY PROJECT
CLASSIFICATION
COPYRIGHT LAW
SUBSCRIPTION
SITE LICENCE
CATALOGUING
THESAURUS
HOLDING
BINDING
ACQUISITION
AUSTRIA
CROATIA
CZECH REP.
FINLAND
GERMANY
HUNGARY
IRELAND
ITALY
SLOVENIA
UK
Patterns
CATEGORY 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th
SUBJECT GATEWAYS 5 2 2 1
ELECTRONIC RESOURCES 2 1 1 3 1
REFERENCE LIBRARY 1 1 2 1 1 1 1
COLLECTIONS 1 3 1 3 2 1
INFO 1 1 2 2 1
EDUCATION 1 1 3 1 1
Future analysis
more libraries richer vocabulary / more labels controlled vocabulary or thesaurus
(synonym and homograph control) level should be included position on the web page (?) ... everyone is invited to cooperate
Lycos Top 50 Nick Berg – execution video War in Iraq – prisoner abuse Paris Hilton – video star Clay Aiken – America’s idol Britney Spears KaZaA Pam Anderson Dragonball WWE – Divas fight Brooke Burke – calendar star Poker – celebrity showdown Baseball – MLB Atkins Diet South Beach Diet
Weight Watchers Amierican idol Dindsay Lohan Neopets – virtual world Harry Potter Jessica Simpson –
summer tour Pokemon – card play Usher – confessions Las Vegas The Bible Final Fantasy Hilary Duff Princess Diana – crash
photos The Olsen Twins Marijuana – wacky weed
“Top web library site terms” PDF SPIRES JOURNAL MAP LINK BUSINESS SEARCH HTML PS SERVICE COLLECTION PHYSICS NEWS RESOURCE BOOK WORLD COLLEGE DATABASE EDUCATION HELP HEALTH PUBMED REPORT ENGINEERING HISTORY
LIBRARIES LANGUAGE STUDENT CHEMISTRY MEDICINE CONFERENCE EBSCOHOST DIRECTORY SCHOOL CONTACT COMPUTER PUBLISHER ART REGISTER JSTOR POLICY THESIS SUBSCRIPTION BIOLOGY CATALOGUE JOB NETWORK DICTIONARY CONTACT US
“Cheshire Cat,” Alice began, “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
Lewis Carroll
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