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Evaluating Local First Page University Site Using 'U' Tool
Making a web site usable is necessary for a web-page to be successful and for
users to be satisfied. Therefore, developing sites that are responsive to user
needs is critical for all site designers and managers. With the increasing growth
of e-learning and emphasis on higher education in our country, a good and
usable university web sites are required for this demand.
This project will focus at evaluating the usability characteristics of every first
page of our local universities. The concentration of this project is to identify
the proposed metrics and develop a prototype considering only the automated
usability characteristics based on the ISO 9126 standard. Therefore, a
prototype of 'U' tool is developed to serve this purpos
Using Google Analytics Data to Expand Discovery and Use of Digital Archival Content
This article presents opportunities for the use of Google Analytics, a popular and freely available web analytics tool, to inform decision making for digital archivists managing online digital archives content. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of Google Analytics data to increase the visibility and discoverability of content. The article describes the use of Google Analytics to support fruitful digital outreach programs, to guide metadata creation for enhancing access, and to measure user demand to aid selection for digitization. Valuable reports, features, and tools in Google Analytics are identified and the use of these tools to gather meaningful data is explained
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On the sustainability of web systems evolution
In the last twenty years, the evolution of web systems has been driven along three dimensions: the processes used to develop, evolve, maintain and re-engineer the systems themselves; the end products (the pages, content and links) of such processes; and finally the people dimension, with the extraordinary shift in how developers and users shape, interact and maintain the code and content that they put online. This paper reviews the questions that each of these dimensions has addressed in the past, and indicates which ones will need to be addressed in the future, in order for web system evolution to be sustainable. We show that the study on websites evolution has shifted from server- to client-side, focusing on better technologies and processes, and that the users becoming creators of content open several open questions, in particular the issue of credibility of the content created and the sustainability of such resources in the long term
Utilising content marketing metrics and social networks for academic visibility
There are numerous assumptions on research evaluation in terms of quality and relevance of academic contributions. Researchers are becoming increasingly acquainted with bibliometric indicators, including; citation analysis, impact factor, h-index, webometrics and academic social networking sites. In this light, this chapter presents a review of these concepts as it considers relevant theoretical underpinnings that are related to the content marketing of scholars. Therefore, this contribution critically evaluates previous papers that revolve on the subject of academic reputation as it deliberates on the individual researchers’ personal branding. It also explains how metrics are currently being used to rank the academic standing of journals as well as higher educational institutions. In a nutshell, this chapter implies that the scholarly impact depends on a number of factors including accessibility of publications, peer review of academic work as well as social networking among scholars.peer-reviewe
Genesis of Altmetrics or Article-level Metrics for Measuring Efficacy of Scholarly Communications: Current Perspectives
The article-level metrics (ALMs) or altmetrics becomes a new trendsetter in
recent times for measuring the impact of scientific publications and their
social outreach to intended audiences. The popular social networks such as
Facebook, Twitter, and Linkedin and social bookmarks such as Mendeley and
CiteULike are nowadays widely used for communicating research to larger
transnational audiences. In 2012, the San Francisco Declaration on Research
Assessment got signed by the scientific and researchers communities across the
world. This declaration has given preference to the ALM or altmetrics over
traditional but faulty journal impact factor (JIF)-based assessment of career
scientists. JIF does not consider impact or influence beyond citations count as
this count reflected only through Thomson Reuters' Web of Science database.
Furthermore, JIF provides indicator related to the journal, but not related to
a published paper. Thus, altmetrics now becomes an alternative metrics for
performance assessment of individual scientists and their contributed scholarly
publications. This paper provides a glimpse of genesis of altmetrics in
measuring efficacy of scholarly communications and highlights available
altmetric tools and social platforms linking altmetric tools, which are widely
used in deriving altmetric scores of scholarly publications. The paper thus
argues for institutions and policy makers to pay more attention to altmetrics
based indicators for evaluation purpose but cautions that proper safeguards and
validations are needed before their adoption
The Size Conundrum: Why Online Knowledge Markets Can Fail at Scale
In this paper, we interpret the community question answering websites on the
StackExchange platform as knowledge markets, and analyze how and why these
markets can fail at scale. A knowledge market framing allows site operators to
reason about market failures, and to design policies to prevent them. Our goal
is to provide insights on large-scale knowledge market failures through an
interpretable model. We explore a set of interpretable economic production
models on a large empirical dataset to analyze the dynamics of content
generation in knowledge markets. Amongst these, the Cobb-Douglas model best
explains empirical data and provides an intuitive explanation for content
generation through concepts of elasticity and diminishing returns. Content
generation depends on user participation and also on how specific types of
content (e.g. answers) depends on other types (e.g. questions). We show that
these factors of content generation have constant elasticity---a percentage
increase in any of the inputs leads to a constant percentage increase in the
output. Furthermore, markets exhibit diminishing returns---the marginal output
decreases as the input is incrementally increased. Knowledge markets also vary
on their returns to scale---the increase in output resulting from a
proportionate increase in all inputs. Importantly, many knowledge markets
exhibit diseconomies of scale---measures of market health (e.g., the percentage
of questions with an accepted answer) decrease as a function of number of
participants. The implications of our work are two-fold: site operators ought
to design incentives as a function of system size (number of participants); the
market lens should shed insight into complex dependencies amongst different
content types and participant actions in general social networks.Comment: The 27th International Conference on World Wide Web (WWW), 201
Faulty Metrics and the Future of Digital Journalism
This report explores the industry of Internet measurement and its impact on news organizations working online. It investigates this landscape through a combination of documentary research and interviews with measurement companies, trade groups, advertising agencies, media scholars, and journalists from national newspapers, regional papers, and online-only news ventures
Monitoring Cluster on Online Compiler with Ganglia
Ganglia is an open source monitoring system for high performance computing (HPC) that collect both a whole cluster and every nodes status and report to the user. We use Ganglia to monitor our spasi.informatika.lipi.go.id (SPASI), a customized-fedora10-based cluster, for our cluster online compiler, CLAW (cluster access through web). Our experience on using Ganglia shows that Ganglia has a capability to view our cluster status and allow us to track them
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