Trapping Topic-Based Information - Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on the Web - page 159

Figure 7.25
The republic of iceland
Web site has all the
news located on the
center of the front page.
his is a well-designed, extensive Web site, especially for a country of less
than 300,000 people. On the other hand, a country's site may be not much
more than a page of information about embassies and general demograph-
ics about the country, with pointers to third-party links. It will vary a lot.
Where to look and what to monitor
What you end up monitoring on a country's Web site depends on what inter-
ests you. Oten you can narrow your interest down to a certain ministry or
easily described topic (agriculture, business, demographics, for instance). If
that's the case, try to ind the ministry or department in that country's gov-
ernmental structure that addresses that topic. For example, I'm interested
in digital information collections provided by countries, so I tend to moni-
tor the pages for a country's national library. RSS feeds tend to be scarce in
my experience, so you need to use page monitors.