Useful Web Resources:
Papers/Articles/Sites on Quality Issues

Adams, Stephen (2003) "Information quality, liability, and corrections." Online. 27 (5) (Sep/Oct 2003). Avalaible at: http://www.infotoday.com/online/sep03/adams.shtml

Alexander, J. and Tate, M. A. Evaluating Web Resources. Available at: http://www3.widener.edu/ Academics/Libraries/ Wolfgram_Memorial_Library/Evaluate_Web_Pages/659/
Includes checklists for Advocacy, Business, Informational, News and Personal web sites; also good bibliography.

Anagnostelis, B.; Cooke, A. and McNab, A. "Never mind the quality, check the badge-width!" Ariadne Issue 9. Available at: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue9/quality-ratings/

Auer, N. (2003) "Bibliography on evaluating Internet resources." Available at http://www.lib.vt.edu/help/instruct/evaluate/evalbiblio.html

Beavers, A. F. "Evaluating Search Engine Models for Scholarly Purposes." D-Lib Magazine (December 1998). Available at: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december98/12beavers.html

Brickley, D.; Gardner, T.; Heery, R and Hiom, D. Recommendations on Implementation of Quality Ratings in an RDF Environment. Bristol: University of Bristol Institute for Learning and Research Technology. Available at http://www.desire.org/html/research/deliverables/D3.1/

Ciolek, T. M. "Today's WWW - Tomorrow's MMM? - The Specter of Multi-Media Mediocrity." IEEE COMPUTER 29 (1) (January 1996) pp. 106-108. Available at: http://www.ciolek.com/PAPERS/MMM.html

Data Quality Web Site. Available at: http://www.dataquality.com

Elkordy, A. Evaluating Web-Based Resources: A Practical Perspective.Available at: http://www.thelearningsite.net/cyberlibrarian/elibraries/eval.html

Engle, M. Evaluating Web Sites: Criteria and Tools. Available at: http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/webeval.html

Fraser, M. Fit for Purpose? Evaluating Digital Resources. Available at: http://info.ox.ac.uk/ctitext/durham/evaluate/index.html

Grassian, E. Thinking Critically about World Wide Web Resources. Available at: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/

Halvorson, T. R. "Searcher Responsibility for Quality in the Web World," Searcher 6 (9) (October 1998) 12-20. Available at: http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/thesis/cguetl_diss/literatur/ Kapitel06/References/Halvorson_1998

The Internet Detective. Available at: http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/detective/

Jung, Betty C. Information Quality Resource Sites. Available at: http://bettycjung.net/Goodinfo.htm

Koyanl, Sanjay J.; Bailey, Robert W. and Nall, Janice R. Research-Based Web Design and Usability Guidelines. Washington: National Institutes of Health, 2003. Available at: http://usability.gov/pdfs/guidelines.html

Measuring Search Engine Quality using Random Walks on the Web. Paper given at Eighth International World Wide Web Conference (May 11-14) Toronto. Available at: http://www8.org/w8-papers/2c-search-discover/ measuring/measuring.pdf

Meola, M. "Chucking the Checklist: A contextual approach to teaching undergraduates web-site evaluation." Portal: Libraries and the Academy. 4 (3) (July 2004). Available at: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/ portal libraries and the academy/toc/pla4.3.html

Quality Selection Criteria for Information Gateways: Report from DESIRE (Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education). Available at: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/desire/quality/

Radosevich, L. "Fixing Web-site Usability." InfoWorld (December 15, 1997). pp. 82-. Available at: http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?/ features/971215webfix.htm

Shneiderman, B. (1997). Clarifying Search: a user-interface framework for text searches. D-Lib Magazine (January 1997). Available at: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january97/retrieval/01shneiderman.html

Smith, A. (2003). "The World Wide Web Virtual Library: Evaluation of information sources." Available at http://www2.vuw.ac.nz/staff/alastair_smith/evaln/evaln.htm

Stepno, B. & Henshaw, B. Quality of Information...and Disinformation Online. Available at: http://www.unc.edu/~rbstepno/disinfo.htm

Tillman, H. How do we Evaluate Web Resources. Available at: http://www.msu.edu/~wolfegay/how%20to%20evaluate.htm

Waller, Richard. "Website Evaluation: Seven Point Checklis" Available at: http://www.waller.co.uk/eval.htm

Web Searching, Sleuthing and Sifting. Available at: http://www.thelearningsite.net/cyberlibrarian/searching/ismain.html

W3C (WWW Consortium). Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 - W3C Recommendation 5-May-1999 Available at: http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WAI-WEBCONTENT-19990505/
"These guidelines explain how to make Web content accessible to people with disabilities. The guidelines are intended for all Web content developers (page authors and site designers)"

WWW Information Quality Virtual Library. Available at: http://www.ciolek.com/WWWVL-InfoQuality.html
Australian National Library site containing quality-assured texts and including a whole section on information quality.