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AMCIS 2008 panel report: Aging content on the web: Issues, implications,and potential research opportunities

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Furneaux, B; Recker, J; Hill, TR; Smith, W; Wang, J; Washington, A; Witman, P
Published in: Communications of the Association for Information Systems
September 28, 2009

Since its inception in the early 1990s,the World Wide Web (Web) has grown enormously. According to the "official Google blog" (Google 2008), the Web had 1 trillion (as in 1,000,000,000,000) unique coexisting URL's as of July 25, 2008. Given the exponential growth of the Web over time, an issue that is likely to gain prominence is that of outdated information. This is especially important to study since many of us rely on the Web to find facts in order to take decisions. For example, for students and researchers, the "date" of a document is important for scholarship and student work. However, getting an accurate date on content is challenging, and furthermore, outdated pages that are not deleted from Web servers will continue to be returned in response to Web searches. The panel, held at the 2008 Americas Conference on Information Systems in Toronto, Canada, identified a number of research issues and opportunities that arise as a result of this phenomenon.

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Anne L Washington
Author Anne L Washington Sanford School of Public Policy

Published In

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

ISSN

1529-3181

Publication Date

September 28, 2009

Volume

24

Issue

1

Start / End Page

113 / 128

Related Subject Headings

  • 4609 Information systems
  • 3503 Business systems in context
  • 2001 Communication and Media Studies
  • 0807 Library and Information Studies
  • 0806 Information Systems
 

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Furneaux, B., Recker, J., Hill, T. R., Smith, W., Wang, J., Washington, A., & Witman, P. (2009). AMCIS 2008 panel report: Aging content on the web: Issues, implications,and potential research opportunities. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 24(1), 113–128.
Furneaux, B., J. Recker, T. R. Hill, W. Smith, J. Wang, A. Washington, and P. Witman. “AMCIS 2008 panel report: Aging content on the web: Issues, implications,and potential research opportunities.” Communications of the Association for Information Systems 24, no. 1 (September 28, 2009): 113–28.
Furneaux B, Recker J, Hill TR, Smith W, Wang J, Washington A, et al. AMCIS 2008 panel report: Aging content on the web: Issues, implications,and potential research opportunities. Communications of the Association for Information Systems. 2009 Sep 28;24(1):113–28.
Furneaux, B., et al. “AMCIS 2008 panel report: Aging content on the web: Issues, implications,and potential research opportunities.” Communications of the Association for Information Systems, vol. 24, no. 1, Sept. 2009, pp. 113–28.
Furneaux B, Recker J, Hill TR, Smith W, Wang J, Washington A, Witman P. AMCIS 2008 panel report: Aging content on the web: Issues, implications,and potential research opportunities. Communications of the Association for Information Systems. 2009 Sep 28;24(1):113–128.

Published In

Communications of the Association for Information Systems

ISSN

1529-3181

Publication Date

September 28, 2009

Volume

24

Issue

1

Start / End Page

113 / 128

Related Subject Headings

  • 4609 Information systems
  • 3503 Business systems in context
  • 2001 Communication and Media Studies
  • 0807 Library and Information Studies
  • 0806 Information Systems