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Evaluating a website

Getting back to the root website

Look at this website :

http://users.rcn.com/virtual.nai/sot/papers.html

then try deleting "papers.html" and see what happens...

- Personal page : person’s name

- Domain names :

Is one of these 2 sites more reliable than the other ?

*http://www.martinlutherking.org/

*http://mlk-kpp01.stanford.edu/

(see http://users.skynet.be/ameurant/francinfo/validite/index.html)

- Which websites are not bogus / hoax websites ?

- When looking at a website, you’re going to ask yourself the following questions :

  • who put the information
  • for whom
  • how is it presented
  • when was it published
  • where is the page hosted
  • what are the contents
  • is the page trying to entertain, inform, sell, convince

- AAOCC : Accuracy, Authority, Objectivity, Currency, Coverage

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