The Organization of Internet Links in a Social Science Clearinghouse

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The Organization of Internet Links in a Social
Science Clearinghouse

• H. Peter Ohly
• Social Science Information Centre Bonn

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Clearinghouses

• Gateways Virtual Catalogues Portals
• Internet Links
• Specialized
• Browsing
• Metadata
• Quality Control

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Scope

• Scientifically based pages
• Information and material for scientists in
  research, teaching and practice as well as for
  students
• Gateways to external Internet resources
• Guides to directories
• Original Internet resources (selected)

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Selection / Weeding

• Professionally adequate level (corresponding to
  information type)
• Stable link address (e.g. homepage)
• free, non limited access to specific informations
• Access to further specialized external links
• Qualification of the creator
• Importance of the resource for the profession
• Information gain with respect to introduced
  resources
• Neutrality of the resource
• Up-to-dateness of the resource
• Quality of presentation

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www-Resources

• Literature -gt BookExample SelfHtml
• ...
• Topics -gt MethodologyExample Garson

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Information Typology (Stocks)

• Institutions (incl. societies, groups)
• Persons (theorists)
• Literature (bibliographies, text archives,
  journals)
• Tools for learning (dictionnaries, translators,
  search engines)
• Empirical data sets (surveys, process produced
  data)
• Objects (pictures, movies, sound, maps)
• Topics (paradigms, methods, areas)
• Processes (research, events, jobs)
• Individual services (not yet specified)

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Metadata - descriptive

• Link
• Name
• Subtitle
• Country
• City
• Document language
• Excerpt
• Social science classification
• Stock
• Type

• Information on
• Description last modified
• (Application) Scheme
• Product property
• Restriction
• Extent
• Domain
• Start/End date
• Source last modified

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Metadata - administrative 

• Suggested by 
• Email Address 
• Stock  
• Owner  
• Change owner
• Resource ID  
• Modified  
• Created  
• Internal comment 
• Robot Config 
• Formally correct 

• Contentwise correct 
• Unpublished 
• Change resource type to
• Redirect
• "Review" done
• Validate
• Document (Source) last modified 
• Redirection count  
• Access count  
• Backlinks  

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Metadata - evaluative

• Availability (lending, purchase, download)
• Product property (numeric, qualitative,
  introduction)
• Restriction (administrative, financial)
• Status (description quality formally,
  contentwise)
• Domain (science or practice)
• Publication (generally, only extended, only
  internal)      
• Hits (number of page visits, number of backlinks)
• Quantity extent (individual vs. collection)
• Quality extent (primary or secondary description)
• Qualitative abstract

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Secondary Services

• Information Type List (Directory, Collection)
• Extend List / Guide
• Information On (other) Information Types
• layer model (Schalenmodell)
• Primary Sources -gt Secondary Sources

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Workflow
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Advanced Search
http//vt-www.bonn.iz-soz.de/socioguide/servlet/de
.izsoz.dbclear.query.browse.Query/langen/domains
ocioguide/stockaids,edata,lit,mat,other,pers,proc
,topic,winst?querydefquery-advanced
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Description
http//carbon.cudenver.edu/mryder/itc/postmodern.
html
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Information Typology (extended)
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