Time: 14:10-15:00 on Thursday 26 July, 2007
Location: Room 473 Centenary Building in Hobart,
Room V137 Computing Building in Launceston
Title: Australian Public Web: Commercial and Social Aspects
Speaker: Professor. Amanda Spink, Queensland University of Technology
Abstract:
The presentation will provide a preliminary analysis of Websites contained in a large-scale crawl of the .au domain that was collected by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in late 2005. This project is a major collaboration between QUT, ANU and the CSIRO. The preliminary analysis is based on a 10 percent random sample of the CSIRO crawl dataset which contains around 10 million Web pages from approximately 200,000 Websites. This preliminary analysis represents the first step in a larger planned project, the aim of which is to use large-scale Web crawls to conduct research into commercial and social aspects of the Australian public Web. The primary aim of the presented analysis is to analyse the data¡¯s properties. Initial findings include: (1) the dataset predominantly consists of commercial Websites (78 percent of sites are ¡°.com.au¡±), (2) .edu.au, .org.au and .net.au sites each account for around 5-6 percent of all sites, and (3) .gov.au sites are approximately 2 percent). Implications of the findings and further research will be discussed.
Ackland, R., Spink, A., & Bailey, P. (2007). Characteristics of .au Websites: An analysis of large-scale Web crawl data from 2005. AUSWEB 2007: Australasian World Wide Web Conference, June 30-July 4, Coffs Harbour, Australia
SPEAKER'S BIO:
Amanda Spink, Professor of Information Technology, Queensland University of Technology has an M.B.A. in IT Management (Fordham) and Ph.D. Information Science (Rutgers). Her research focuses on basic, applied, industry and interdisciplinary studies in information science, including theories, models and experiments related to information behavior, cognitive information retrieval, and Web retrieval. Her research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, ARC, NEC, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Alta Vista, Infospace, Vivisimo, Excite and the Andrew R. Mellon Foundation. Amanda has over 290 publications in information retrieval, Web retrieval and information behavior. Her recent books with Springer include Web Search: Public Searching of the Web, New directions in Cognitive Information Retrieval, New Directions in Human Information Behavior and Web Search: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Amanda was ranked the second most highly cited scholar in the field of Library and Information Science for 2001 - 2004.
