Web Wisdom: How to Evaluate and Create Information Quality on the Web

by Marsha Tate

Mobile technologies, faster connection speeds, and the 24/7 connectivity that has lead to the development of social media have created an explosion of Internet use in the ten years since the initial publication of Web How To Evaluate and Create Information Quality on the Web . A decade ago, these technologies and activities did not exist or were the purview of small select groups of internet users. Despite dramatic changes in the online realm, the basic evaluation principles presented in the first edition remain as applicable today as they were in the 1990s. Keeping up with the advances required to navigate the web for research, this second edition Many people mistakenly assume that as online technologies mature and the use of Internet-based content becomes ubiquitous, the need to emphasize critical evaluation skills lessens. On the contrary, the phenomenal global growth of the internet coupled with the ever increasing sophistication of online technologies and software applications requires individuals to be even savvier web users. This book describes the basic elements that web resource users, new or experienced, need to address to identify reliable and practical online content. The book also provides important guidance for creators of Web-based resources to more effectively convey their messages to web users. Presented in a straightforward and highly accessible format for readers of all backgrounds, the tools and strategies outlined in this book will help users and creators of Internet–based content to meet the diverse evaluation challenges posed by the web.

168 pages, Paperback

First published November 18, 2009

Reviews

[Mohammed Almahfoudh]

This book is for both, Web authors and Web users. As a web author, you want to produce content that is recognized as providing quality content (be it, advocacy, informational, news, entertainment or personal). As a Web user, you could be faced with astonishingly many Web pages providing information or other content that provide more than one version of the truth. This book provides you with the tools you need to evaluate such information or content.



The book consists of 13 chapters. Chapter 1 is an introductory chapter and provides an overview of the whole book. Chapters 2 to 6 provide are "the conceptual foundation for the evaluation criteria". Chapters 4 through 12, however, are intended to serve as specific resource, each chapter represents a resource for one of the six types of Web pages described in the book. Finally, chapter 13 is for Web authors covering subjects including meta tags and copyright which also can be useful to Web users. At the end of the book, an appendix is provided. Appendix A has all the checklists provided throughout the text. Appendix B has a listing of all the questions related to each evaluation criterion.