Govcom.org has been conceived as a project to map debates on the Web on important social issues. In general they note that the major players in those debates come from government (.gov), industry (.com) and NGOs (.org), with science (.edu) often playing a lesser role than one would expect. Govcom.org is meant as the domain where one can follow some of these debates on societal issues by looking at maps that depict hyperlink and/or discursive relations between leading parties per issue. To map the relations between these parties, they found it necessary to chart country subdomains, so global relationships could be depicted between generic .gov's, .com's, .org's, as well as .edu's. For example, .gov.al (Albanian governmental sites) and .org.br (Brazilian NGOs) would be mapped as 'government' and 'NGO', respectively. This has been added to Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has also been added to the search engines section of Internet MiniGuides 2005.
posted by Marcus Zillman |
4:15 AM
