Users browsing behaviour in a DDC-based web service: A log analysis

T. Koch; K. Golub; A. Ardö

doi:10.1300/J104v42n03_07

Users browsing behaviour in a DDC-based web service: A log analysis

T. Koch, K. Golub, A. Ardö

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This study explores the navigation behaviour of all users of a large web service, Renardus, using web log analysis. Renardus provides integrated searching and browsing access to quality-controlled web resources from major individual subject gateway services. The main navigation feature is subject browsing through the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) based on mapping of classes of resources from the distributed gateways to the DDC structure. Among the more surprising results are the hugely dominant share of browsing activities, the good use of browsing support features like the graphical fish-eye overviews, rather long and varied navigation sequences, as well as extensive hierarchical directory-style browsing through the large DDC system.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Moving Beyond the Presentation Layer
Subtitle of host publication	Content and Context in the Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) System
Publisher	Routledge
Pages	163-186
Number of pages	24
Volume	42
ISBN (Print)	9780203051887
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1300/J104v42n03_07
Publication status	Published - 2006

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