David Stuart is an independent information professional and an honorary research fellow at the University of Wolverhampton, UK, and was previously a research fellow at King's College London and the University of Wolverhampton. He regularly publishes in peer-reviewed academic journals and professional journals on information science, metrics, and semantic web technologies, and in 2015 began writing a regular column for the journal Online Information Review called 'Taming Metrics'. His books include Web Metrics for Library and Information Professionals (Facet Publishing, 2014) and Facilitating Access to the Web of Data (Facet Publishing, 2011).
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The web provides an opportunity to collect a host of different metrics, from those associated with social media accounts and web sites to more traditional research outputs. This book is a clear guide and valuable tool for library and information professionals to the web metrics available and how to assess and use them to make informed decisions and demonstrate value. As individuals and organizations increasingly use the web to bypass traditional publishing avenues and formats, this book provides the tools to unlock web metrics and evaluate the impact of this content to others within the organization and beyond.
1. Introduction
Metrics
Indicators
Web metrics and Ranganathan's laws of library science
Web metrics for the library and information professional
The aim of this book
The structure of the rest of this book
2. Bibliometrics, webometrics and web metrics
Introduction
Web metrics
Information science metrics
Web analytics
Relational and evaluative metrics
Evaluative web metrics
Relational web metrics
Validating the results
Conclusion
3. Data collection tools
Introduction
The anatomy of a URL, web links and the structure of the web
Search engines 1.0
Web crawlers
Search engines 2.0
Post search engine 2.0: fragmentation
Conclusion
4. Evaluating impact on the web
Introduction
Websites
Blogs
Wikis
Internal metrics
External metrics
A systematic approach to content analysis
Conclusions
5. Evaluating social media impact
Introduction
Aspects of social network sites
Typology of social network sites
Research and tools for specific sites and services
Other social network sites
General social media impact
Sentiment analysis
Conclusion
6. Investigating relationships between actors
Introduction
Social network analysis methods
Sources for relational network analysis
Conclusions
7. Exploring traditional publications in a new environment
Introduction
More bibliographic items
Full text analysis
Greater context
Conclusion
8. Web metrics and the web of data
Introduction
The web of data
Building the semantic web
Implications of the web of data for web metrics
Investigating the web of data today
SPARQL
Sindice
LDSpider – an RDF web crawler
Conclusions
9. The future of web metrics and the library and information professional
How far we have come
The future of web metrics
The future of the library and information professional and web metrics.
"Will enable librarians to evaluate social media impact, web impact, relationships between entities on the web; and explore traditional publications in a new cyberspace environment. Of special note is Stuart's commentary on the future of web metrics and the library professional. A seminal work of impressive scholarship, Web Metrics for Library and Information Professionals is very highly recommended for practicing librarians in community, academic, corporate, and governmental library systems, as well as informational professionals charged with the responsibility for gathering, analyzing, interpreting, and reporting web metrics."
— Midwest Book Review
"Does Web Metrics for Library and Information Professionals provide a strong foundation for LIS professionals to explore the nature and potential of web metrics as a tool for building better web-based information services? The answer is unequivocally yes, and the book is recommended."
— Archives and Manuscripts
"...a very interesting book that covers a range of technical areas. For anyone interested in bibliometrics who wants to better understand how the web presents both challenges and opportunities to the information science community then this is a great introduction. The author is clearly knowledgeable about metrics and makes some useful connections between the applied and research worlds. Any information professional or student wanting a considered overview of some of the key metrics for providing information services in a digital world would be advised to read it."
— Elucidate
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