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CitedSites(sm): Citation Indexing of Web Resources
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PACS-L Moderator)
Mon Oct 7 20:22:43 1996
Date: Mon, 07 Oct 1996 18:13:55 -0500 (CDT)
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From: "Gerry McKiernan" <JL.GJM@ISUMVS.IASTATE.EDU>
Subject: CitedSites(sm): Citation Indexing of Web Resources
CitedSites(sm) Citation Indexing of Web Resources
For a planned review and clearinghouse, I am interested in learning of
projects, research, products, or services that have applied Citation
Indexing research, products, or services that have applied Citation Indexing
to Web resources. Citation Indexing is a method of locating potentially
relevant documents on a given subject by identifying subsequent documents
that cite a previously published document. The Science Citation Index_
developed by Eugene Garfield and the Institute for Scientific Information
(ISI) is a premier example of a Citation Index.
If viewed as a hyperlinked corpus, or a collection of cited sites, we
may be able to enhance identification and access to the most relevant sites
for a specific topic through application of Citation Indexing and related
approaches.
In the Web environment we need not be interested in the priority of
publication, but would consider the number and percentage of primary and
secondary links shared by linked homepages. Those pages that share the
highest relative & absolute number and percentage of homepages could be
considered pages of greatest relevance in a specific topic; those with the
least could be considered least relevant.
Certainly, other kinds of associations can be calculated and presented
in ways analogous to the enhanced features found within the Science Citation
Index CD-ROM. Information Visualization could greatly facilitate the
navigation of contents and concepts within these cited sites and provide
enhanced access to non-Web citation databases as well. I will be
investigating the application of Information Visualization for non-Web and
Web databases later this year in a new project entitled mrsPEEL.
As always, any recommendations, suggestions, reactions, contacts, or
leads about these ideas will be very much appreciated. Thanks to Jerry
Morine, Bemidji, or crystalizing my thinking about the possibility of
Citation Indexing for the Web and to Ray Larson for his innovative
application of bibliometrics to a Web corpus that I have profiled in Project
Aristotle(sm).
As sites and projects are identified and reviewed they will be profiled
at this site at the following URL:
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/Cited.htm
Regards,
Gerry McKiernan
Curator, CyberStacks(sm)
Iowa State University
Ames IA 50011
gerrymck@iastate.edu
http://www.public.iastate.edu/~CYBERSTACKS/
Cited Sites = Sitations
