The SiteLegend: Twelve Components of a New Strategy for Providing Website Documentation

The World Wide Web continues to evolve dramatically with an estimated 57 million users in the United States. Some two‐thirds of Internet users in the United States searched for health information the past year, with 90% indicating they found the information they sought. Thus, health and medical info...

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Published in:The Journal of school health 2000-04, Vol.70 (4), p.148-152
Main Authors: Weiler, Robert M., Pealer, Lisa N.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Accuracy
Analysis
Design and construction
Disclosure
Documentation
Electronic publication
Electronic publishing
Evaluators
Guidelines
Health
Health Information
Hypermedia
Inferences
Information Services - organization & administration
Information Services - standards
Information Systems
Internet
Internet - organization & administration
Internet - standards
Links (Indexing)
Males
Medical publishing
Methods
Nursing
Physicians
Quality Control
Rating Scales
Social Support Groups
Teaching Methods
URLs
Web site design
Web Sites
World Wide Web
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Summary:The World Wide Web continues to evolve dramatically with an estimated 57 million users in the United States. Some two‐thirds of Internet users in the United States searched for health information the past year, with 90% indicating they found the information they sought. Thus, health and medical information represents the single most popular topic on the Web, surpassing all other categories. Yet, few measures exist to ensure the accuracy of information provided to children and adults through such sites. Some existing quality control measures such as assessment instruments, authoritative guidelines, and seal of approval systems provide screening mechanisms, but none of these measures guarantees protection for users. This article proposes a new approach to ensuring full and accurate disclosure of information about a website. Referred to as a SiteLegend, the approach uses a hyperlink to fully inform consumers regarding 12 essential components of website. This article describes each of the 12 essential components, then provides an example of an active online link that illustrates actual use of the SiteLegend hyperlink approach.
ISSN:0022-4391
1746-1561
DOI:10.1111/j.1746-1561.2000.tb06461.x