Web Based Information System

Contents: Preface. 1. Web based information system: an overview. 2. Quality of information for web resources. 3. Information needs. 4. Implementation in the design of web-based instruction. 5. Complex information design. 6. Information system design. 7. Process for addressing complex situations. 8. Visual design methods in interactive applications. 9. Problem solving and content analysis for web. 10. Method of information design. 11. Sourcing for web based information design. 12. Evaluation criteria of a web page. 13. Information quality in informational web pages. 14. Effective web pages and sites for web based information system. Bibliography. Index.

"This publication, entitled 'Web Based Information Systems' present a number of different WBIS technologies and how they are integrated. In this regard the solution opted for, was the creation of an image database and the adoption of standard Web browsers enhanced with Java applets for browsing, querying and updating the database. This way we managed to provide an intranet based querying and retrieval mechanism through a web server. The access mechanism was designed to work with standard browsers so that at a later stage internet access to the digital library should be trivial to implement. Initial decisions and results were presented in.

The book also focuses on the widespread use of the web for information management, as opposed to mere presentation, which has revealed the weak points of HTML as a general purpose scripting language for information retrieval and query result presentation over the HTTP protocol. Early implementations of Web front-ends to libraries, that proposed an HTML form page in place of tying into a telenet connection, have rather disappointed end-users who had to face extended network latency for no apparent profit." (jacket)