Investment in The Coconut Industry by Nancy Cheruiyot
Monitoring the transformation of a domain-specific portal into a social information hub
1. Monitoring the transformation of a domain-specific portal into a social information hub Ramón Ovelar Virtual Campus – University of the Basque Country GIEL – ELIT Research Group SIRTEL 08 – Maastricht Pecha Kutcha talk
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4. THEMATIC PORTALS 1.0 TECHNOLOGY ONLINE COMMUNITY INFORMATION CONTENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS ZOPE / PLONE PHP NUKE MAMBO / JOOMLA DRUPAL RESOURCES REPORTS POLITICS BEST PRACTICES E-LEARNING LEVERAGING INFORMATION FILTERING FORESCASTING USERS PARTICIPATION FORUMS AFFINITY SUGGESTIONS 3 main elements: community, technology and information A SENSE OF BELONGING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES EXPERTS ARE GATEKEEPERS
5. ¿are domain-specific portal, based on experts gatekeepers, adequate tools for managing information overload in a Web 2.0 context?
12. Available data sources Not interesting in first and second phase and difficult External applications, using APIs or web scrapers Not interesting in first and second phase and difficult External applications, data provided by administrators of these applications (raw data in dumps) Interesting but difficult Social network analysis Relevant and affordable Logs / Google Analytics Relevant and affordable Questionnaires and interviews
13. thanks Ramón Ovelar Virtual Campus – University of the Basque Country GIEL – ELIT Research Group