The web structure of e-government - Developing a methodology for quantitative evaluation

Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on World Wide Web

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 669-678

  Petricek, Vaclav ^a   Escher, Tobias ^b   Cox, Ingemar J ^a   Margetts, Helen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analysis; E government; National audit offices; Network; Quantative evaluation; Ranking; Webmetric

Indexed keywords

E-GOVERNMENT; SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS; WEB STRUCTURE; NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICES; NETWORK ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE EVALUATION; RANKING; WEBMETRIC;

INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SERVICES; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; POPULATION STATISTICS; WEBSITES;

WEBSITES; INTERNET;

EID: 34250736852     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1135777.1135875     Document Type: Conference Paper

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