Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Practical 6A
Evaluation for Internet Resources
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Title of Internet Resource: Pop music – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
URL : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop_music
Purpose
The aims of the website are clearly stated.
Coverage
The website covers the history of the topic, pop music, the history of the topic and provides links to more websites which are discussing about the similar topic.
The information is comprehensive and helpful.
Perhaps the website can include more write-ups about the people or themes regarding the topic and add more pictures, graphics, animations or even music to make the website seem livelier.
The links to the other website has deemed to be very useful and it is somewhat connected to the theme of the site.
Authority
The references has been stated in the website. It has been used and been referenced to many times. There is a discussion on the wikipedia forum on the neutrality of the website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Pop_music
Accuracy
It is a factual site which includes all the facts and not any opinion. However, music has been and still is a very much argued topic. It is hard to define the different kinds of music, as to which specific genre they belong to. There are arguments in the forum page as to how neutral are the information are.
To me, the information is mostly on facts and some of the examples given are defined on a wide range.
Currency
The information was last updated on December 2006.
The information is well organized according to the years and various categories.
Accessibility
The website is easily accessible. It does not require registration or log-ins to view the information. It is available to all for free.
The website is a sub-page of the Wikipedia database, which is an online encyclopedia, which maintains on donations to keep it running.
Presentation and Alignment
The information is well presented, clear and simple to understand. There are links to other more relevant websites in the same database and the links are pretty useful.
The arrangement of the information is neat and easy to view in one glance.
Usability
It is user friendly as it provides quick links at the top which links to the information at the bottom for quick references.
Overall
Overall, I am impressed at the presentation of the data, which was easy to understand and the website was easy to navigate.
However, it would have been better if the website was more colorful and had included more graphics.
-when are you
coming back? ;
