Designing webliographies in an effective and simple manner: a step by step process

• Main Author: Dariush Alimohammadi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Webology Center 2004-08-01
• Series: Webology
• Subjects: Webliography designing; World Wide Web; Web Information Retrieval; Internet
• Online Access: http://www.webology.org/2004/v1n1/a2.html

This paper explains web-based information retrieval as one of the main research interests of information professionals during the last decade, and introduces machine-oriented and human-oriented approaches in the designing process of Internet search tools and concerns with the second approach as a basis for the discussion. Then it defines the concept of webliography as a special type human-edited search tools. It is in fact an enumerative list of hypertext links and a gateway to the scientific sources of information on the Net, whether annotated or not. The existence and development of webliographies on the Net are justified based on a brief literature review. 14 phases of webliography production process are also enumerated step by step and a conclusion is provided finally.