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Measuring Public Accessibility of Australian Government Web Pages

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Digital Libraries: Universal and Ubiquitous Access to Information (ICADL 2008)

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We measured the public accessibility of Australian government Web pages, using search engines’ crawling coverage and delay. Our results demonstrate that search engines crawled 73% ~ 83 % of newly published Web pages, exhibiting a delay of from 6.7 to 14.0 days.

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  1. Missingham, R.: Access to Australian Government information: A decade of change 1997–2007. Government Information Quarterly 25(1), 25–37 (2008)

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  1. School of Computing, University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay, 7005, Tasmania, Australia

    Yang Sok Kim, Byeong Ho Kang & Raymond Williams

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Swansea University, Singleton Park, SA2 8PP, Swansea, UK

    George Buchanan

  2. Computer Science Department, The University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Masood Masoodian

  3. Computer Science Department, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand

    Sally Jo Cunningham

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Kim, Y.S., Kang, B.H., Williams, R. (2008). Measuring Public Accessibility of Australian Government Web Pages. In: Buchanan, G., Masoodian, M., Cunningham, S.J. (eds) Digital Libraries: Universal and Ubiquitous Access to Information. ICADL 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5362. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89533-6_55

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-89533-6_55

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