...Chen Ye; Oded Nov Purpose – The objective of this paper is to explore empirically the relationship between quantity and quality of user contributed information in online social computing systems, and how these two performance outcomes are associated with user factors. Design/methodology...

...Myshkin Ingawale; Amitava Dutta; Rahul Roy; Priya Seetharaman Purpose Social media platforms allow near‐unfettered creation and exchange of user generated content (UGC). Drawing from network science, the purpose of this paper is to examine whether high and low quality UGC differ...

...Mohan John Blooma; Dion Hoe‐Lian Goh; Alton Yeow‐Kuan Chua Purpose The purpose of this study is to examine the predictors of high‐quality answers in a community‐driven question answering service (Yahoo! Answers). Design/methodology/approach The identified predictors were organised into two...

...Stephen R. Gulliver; George Ghinea Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between cognitive style, user personality and perceived multimedia quality. Design/methodology/approach This paper used Cognitive Style Analysis and an adapted Myers‐Briggs questionnaire...

...Enrique Bonsón‐Ponte; Tomás Escobar‐Rodríguez; Francisco Flores‐Muñoz Purpose The objective of this study is to measure the navigation quality of the corporate webpages of the principal European financial entities, given the vital importance of the accessibility of online content...

...Lan Anh Tran Edited by Coral   Calero Muñoz , Ma.   Ángeles Moraga and Mario   Piattini . Handbook of Research on Web Information System Quality . Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference   2008 . 558 pp. , ISBN: 9781599048475   US$245.00 (hard cover...

... to re‐engineer their business services. Jun Shen can be contacted at: jshen@nuow.edu.au © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 Semantics Worldwide web Quality In recent years we have witnessed growing popularity of e‐service applications. In a dynamic e‐service environment...

... between useful, reliable sources and the untrustworthy ones. Evolving Internet Reference Resources reviews and evaluates internet reference resources in a wide variety of fields in order to provide the reader with guidance to quality resources. Online resources made available by government...

... on perceived usefulness were negatively significant. Effects of content quality on perceived usefulness were significant. This study found that the effects of subjective norm significantly influenced perceived usefulness in both settings. Also, perceived network externality exerts a significant direct effect...

...Ángeles Moraga; Coral Calero; Mario Piattini Purpose – The purpose of this research is to present a brief overview of some proposals for portal quality models. In addition, a comparative study is carried out to determine the similarities and differences of these models. Design/methodology...

...Miguel‐Angel Sicilia; Nikos Manouselis; Constantina Costopoulou Purpose An issue of increased interest in metadata research concerns finding ways to store, in the metadata of an information resource, data regarding the resource's quality. The purpose of this paper is to present a metadata schema...

... distinguishes three dimensions related to web features, lifecycle processes and quality characteristics. A range of recently published (1992‐2004) works that include web metrics definitions have been studied and classified within this model. Findings In this work, a global vision of web metrics is provided...

...Paul Sturges Quality Internet Evaluation An addition to the fairly small number of books that offer to assist the Internet user in sorting the high quality wheat from the cyber‐chaff is welcome. The editor, Anne Mintz, declares her intention to help the reader deal with misinformation...

.... These and other papers are also most relevant to information and computer scientists aiming to providing a quality and coherent Internet service. The papers reflect quality research from Asian, Australian, European, North American and South American countries. Each paper is accompanied by an abstract...

...Deborah A. Cronau Alison   Cooke . A Guide to Finding Quality Information on the Internet: Selection and Evaluation Strategies, 2nd ed. . London : Library Association Publishing   2001 . 216 pp. , ISBN: 1856043797   £29.95 (softback) Quality Information Internet...

...) Internet Research Quality In an age inundated by a plethora of Web sites how can quality be easily determined? This 386‐page book of 15 chapters focuses on the role libraries and scholars have in the dissemination of Internet resources, and it answers this question by pointing the way to quality...