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dc.contributor.authorThelwall, Mike
dc.contributor.authorVann, Katie
dc.contributor.authorFairclough, Ruth
dc.date.accessioned2008-01-09T14:16:56Z
dc.date.available2008-01-09T14:16:56Z
dc.date.issued2006
dc.identifier.citationJournal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 57(10): 1303-1314
dc.identifier.issn15322882
dc.identifier.issn15322890
dc.identifier.doi10.1002/asi.20434
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2436/15869
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dc.description.abstractIn this article Web issue analysis is introduced as a new technique to investigate an issue as reflected on the Web. The issue chosen, integrated water resource management (IWRM), is a United Nations-initiated paradigm for managing water resources in an international context, particularly in developing nations. As with many international governmental initiatives, there is a considerable body of online information about it: 41,381 hypertext markup language (HTML) pages and 28,735 PDF documents mentioning the issue were downloaded. A page uniform resource locator (URL) and link analysis revealed the international and sectoral spread of IWRM. A noun and noun phrase occurrence analysis was used to identify the issues most commonly discussed, revealing some unexpected topics such as private sector and economic growth. Although the complexity of the methods required to produce meaningful statistics from the data is disadvantageous to easy interpretation, it was still possible to produce data that could be subject to a reasonably intuitive interpretation. Hence Web issue analysis is claimed to be a useful new technique for information science.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherWiley InterScience
dc.relation.urlhttp://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/112650750/abstract
dc.subjectWater resource management
dc.subjectWater resources
dc.subjectWeb issue analysis
dc.subjectIntegrated water resource management
dc.subjectCase study
dc.titleWeb issue analysis: an integrated water resource management case study
dc.typeJournal article
html.description.abstractIn this article Web issue analysis is introduced as a new technique to investigate an issue as reflected on the Web. The issue chosen, integrated water resource management (IWRM), is a United Nations-initiated paradigm for managing water resources in an international context, particularly in developing nations. As with many international governmental initiatives, there is a considerable body of online information about it: 41,381 hypertext markup language (HTML) pages and 28,735 PDF documents mentioning the issue were downloaded. A page uniform resource locator (URL) and link analysis revealed the international and sectoral spread of IWRM. A noun and noun phrase occurrence analysis was used to identify the issues most commonly discussed, revealing some unexpected topics such as private sector and economic growth. Although the complexity of the methods required to produce meaningful statistics from the data is disadvantageous to easy interpretation, it was still possible to produce data that could be subject to a reasonably intuitive interpretation. Hence Web issue analysis is claimed to be a useful new technique for information science.


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