Purpose – To explore the use of LexiURL as a Web intelligence tool for collecting and analysing links to digital libraries, focusing specifically on the National electronic Library for Health (NeLH). Design/methodology/approach – The Web intelligence techniques in this study are a combination of link analysis (web structure mining), web server log file analysis (web usage mining), and text anal...

Previous research has set the foundation of Learning Object Technologies; unfortunately just the foundation is not enough to convince instructors and learners to use the technology. Mature tools are needed in order to breach the early-adopter mainstream gap. Following what has been done with other related technologies, this work presents research to create automated measurements (metrics) that ...

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to present the network visualization and SNA indicators as a way to explore and to analyse the web site design through the users’ navigational paths. Design/methodology/approach: Web log files from the webometrics.info site were analysed. Web usage mining techniques were used to process these data. Several network graphs (navigational and query graph) were buil...

This book is a must if one is a student or researcher new to information science and, in particular, to information retrieval (IR) interaction and multimedia research. It will be especially valuable to those interested in human factors of IR in a social search context combined with information representation, access and interaction techniques, interface and evaluation methodology issues, and We...

Web log analysis, like my own area of webometrics, is a relatively new Web-based, primarily quantitative set of approaches of growing importance to information scientists. With the shift in service provision to theWeb, libraries and archives need to engage with quantitative techniques to assess the impact and effectiveness of their online resources and information. Moreover, information scienti...

This editorial introductory paper first discusses the reasons for the clear growth of the field of informetrics (bibliometrics, scientometrics, webometrics, ...). This has lead some journals to increase their number of volumes or the number of issues per volume. The journal Information Processing and Management decided to devote two special issues (the one here and another one to come in 2006) ...

This paper reports the results of a large scale data analysis that aims to identify the information production and consumption among top research institutions in the United States. A 20-year publication data set was analyzed to identify the 500 most cited research institutions and spatiotemporal changes in their inter-citation patterns. A novel approach to analyzing the dual role of institution...

Studying scientific collaboration using coauthorship networks has attracted much attention in recent years. How and in what context two authors collaborate remain among the major. Previous studies, however, have focused on either exploring the global topology of coauthorship networks (macro perspective) or ranking the impact of individual authors (micro perspective). Neither of them has provide...

This paper reports the results of a large scale data analysis that aims to identify the information production and consumption among top research institutions in the United States. A 20-year publication data set was analyzed to identify the 500 most cited research institutions and spatio-temporal changes in their inter-citation patterns. A novel approach to analyzing the dual role of institutio...