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Authoring and information seeking on the world-wide web : an experimental study.

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dc.contributor.advisorHorton, Weldon J.
dc.contributor.advisorPetkov, Doncho.
dc.contributor.advisorKaniki, Andrew M.
dc.contributor.authorIlcheva, Stoyanka Atchkova.
dc.date.accessioned2012-07-18T13:36:22Z
dc.date.available2012-07-18T13:36:22Z
dc.date.created1997
dc.date.issued1997
dc.descriptionThesis (M.I.S.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1997.en
dc.description.abstractThe research reported in this thesis is focused on some of the implications for Library and Information Science of the development of the Internet, and the World-Wide Web (WWW) in particular. It highlights the need for a wider involvement of this profession in the better management, organisation, and ultimately - usability, of the global information system. An extensive study of the information seeking process was carried out on a collection of interlinked hypertext documents constituting a PC-based model of the World-Wide Web. Special attention was paid to the correlation of WWW document authoring characteristics and the success rate in browsing sessions performed by novice, casual and experienced Internet end-users. The analysis of the results from a number of browsing sessions on the model led to some specific recommendations for comprehension-oriented WWW authoring.en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10413/6006
dc.language.isoen_ZAen
dc.subjectInternet.en
dc.subjectWorld Wide Web--Evaluation.en
dc.subjectTheses--Library and information science.en
dc.subjectInformation retrieval--Research.en
dc.subjectInformation storage and retrieval systems--Evaluation.en
dc.subjectHypertext systems.en
dc.titleAuthoring and information seeking on the world-wide web : an experimental study.en
dc.typeThesisen

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