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User Profiles in Information Web Portals

Authors:
Carmen Moraga
Maria Angeles Moraga
Angelica Caro
Coral Calero
Rodrigo Romo Muñoz

Keywords: Data Quality; Web portal; Statistical Method.

Abstract:
The number of Web portals is increasing daily. These Web portals can be grouped into different types according to their purpose. One of these types is ‘Information Web Portals’ in which data quality is particularly important to users. This paper uses a survey to study the relevance that users place on a series of data quality characteristics in this type of Web portal. To do this, we determined various user profiles based on demographic aspects (gender, age range, level of studies and type of organization). We also analysed whether each profile prefers some characteristics to others. The results obtained will allow designers and developers to know which data quality characteristics they should place most emphasis on depending on the users of a particular Web portal.

Pages: 105 to 110

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: January 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4421

ISBN: 978-1-61208-248-6

Location: Seville, Spain

Dates: from January 27, 2013 to February 1, 2013