Findability aspects in Family Farming digital information environments

Family Farming is attracting interests of multiples actors of society and comprises a set of several rural activities that are managed and operated by a family and predominantly dependent on family hand labor. In Brazil, this kind of activity has an important role in food production, representing 84% of all rural establishments.

Linked with the relevance of the subject, there is a growing interest that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) permeates these areas, amplifying access to information by farmers and bringing benefits to rural practices and increasing their competitive factor. Read more “Findability aspects in Family Farming digital information environments” →

The construction of a multidimensional model of link rot…

The transparency of the activities of States to society is a part of concepts about new models of public administration.
However, nowadays, actions of transparency of the activities of States through Information and Communication Technologies, present new concerns such as resources that are referenced by broken hyperlinks (link rot), and therefore are not accessible to society, discouraging the public in data query.
The goal of this paper is to structure, in a star scheme topology, data collected on information resources referenced by broken hyperlinks on government sites, and consequently, with a no longer available content; and present as a result of both the construction of this structure, as initial analyses of these data. Read more “The construction of a multidimensional model of link rot occurrences on government websites” →