Tracking Government WebSites for Information Integration Vol. 12 No. 4, October, 2007 Contents | Author index | Subject index | Search | Home Proceedings of the Sixth I nternational Conference on Conceptions of Library and I nformation Science —"Featuring the Future" Tracking government Websites for information integration Yang Sok Kim and Byeong Ho Kang School of Computing, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 100 Hobart TAS 7001 Australia Abstract Introduction. Nowadays government policies, laws, and other valuable information are published via the web. However, it is very difficult to ensure the comprehensiveness, accuracy and currency of all Webpublications manually, because there are too many Websites that are usually maintained by different departments and agencies. Method. We proposed a Web monitoring system based Web information integration method to resolve this problem. It has been utilized for Australian and Tasmanian government Web information integration for the State Library of Tasmania since July 2005.We have been monitoring 249 federal, state and local government Websites for the Web information integration since July 2005. Monitoring Websites consist of federal government homepages (21 sites, 8%), federal government media release pages (108 sites, 44%), Tasmanian government homepages (73 sites, 30%), Tasmanian government media release pages (16 sites, 6%), and Tasmanian local government homepages (31, 12%) file:///C|/Documents%20and%20Settings/iapted/Desktop/Tracking%20Government%20WebSites%20for%20Information%20Integration.htm (1 of 22) [19/11/2008 3:03:31 PM]