TY - GEN
T1 - Investigating the influence of social computing applications on website quality
AU - Goh, Dion Hoe Lian
AU - Chua, Alton Y.K.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Social computing applications hold immense potential in enriching communication, enabling collaboration and fostering innovation. However, little work has been done to studying social computing applications in library Websites. This paper therefore seeks to investigate the prevalence of social computing applications in library Websites, and in particular, examine if the presence of such applications enhance the quality of these sites. In our work, 120 libraries' Websites, from North America, Europe and Asia, divided equally between public and academic, were sampled and their content analyzed. Prevalence of social computing applications was found to vary across regions but only marginally by library type. Further, the presence of social computing applications was found to correlate to the overall quality of library Websites. The paper concludes by highlighting implications for both librarians and scholars interested to delve deeper into the implementation of social computing applications.
AB - Social computing applications hold immense potential in enriching communication, enabling collaboration and fostering innovation. However, little work has been done to studying social computing applications in library Websites. This paper therefore seeks to investigate the prevalence of social computing applications in library Websites, and in particular, examine if the presence of such applications enhance the quality of these sites. In our work, 120 libraries' Websites, from North America, Europe and Asia, divided equally between public and academic, were sampled and their content analyzed. Prevalence of social computing applications was found to vary across regions but only marginally by library type. Further, the presence of social computing applications was found to correlate to the overall quality of library Websites. The paper concludes by highlighting implications for both librarians and scholars interested to delve deeper into the implementation of social computing applications.
KW - evaluation
KW - social computing
KW - web 2.0
KW - website quality
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U2 - 10.1145/1774088.1774256
DO - 10.1145/1774088.1774256
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77954739319
SN - 9781605586380
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
SP - 807
EP - 811
BT - APPLIED COMPUTING 2010 - The 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
T2 - 25th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, SAC 2010
Y2 - 22 March 2010 through 26 March 2010
ER -