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Issuecrawling
Published in Celia Lury, Rachel Fensham, Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Sybille Lammes, Angela Last, Mike Michael, Emma Uprichard, Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research Methods, 2018
List-building in preparation for seeding the Issuecrawler or other link crawling software such as Hyphe or VOSON often relies on ‘link lists’ (Jacomy, Girard, Ooghe-Tabanou and Venturini 2016; Ackland et al. 2006). In the past preferred starting points were those lists maintained by Dmoz.org, the open directory project, and Yahoo!, the original web ‘directory’. Both projects are dormant. To a degree, directories of all kinds on the web have been supplanted by search engines, which also author lists, albeit of query results rather than list of websites categorized by human editors. Inter-governmental organizations as well as NGOs also have been keepers of expert lists, but their curation practices (such as Amnesty International’s list of human rights organizations) have been in abeyance for years. Wikipedia continues to be one of the few human-edited list-makers; given their encyclopaedic quality (and exhaustiveness) they require subject-matter expert paring.
Attention for Web Directory Advertisements: A Top-Down or Bottom-Up Process?
Published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2019
Yaqin Cao, Qingxing Qu, Vincent G. Duffy, Yi Ding
A web directory is a directory on the World Wide Web posting links to other websites and categorizes those links by various topics, so they are easily found by inexperienced internet users (Chung, 2012). For example, Yahoo had one of the oldest and best Web directories on the Web (Jachimczyk, Chrapek, & Chrapek, 2016). Web directories are not only preferred by many internet users but also attract lots of advertisers (Bilal & Wang, 2014; Chen, Magoulas, & Dimakopoulos, 2005).