Wednesday, November 15, 2006

[practical 2; 4 websites 1 forum]

Research Topic: Discuss the developments in Cancer research

Type of Website: Organization
Resource URL: http://www.nccs.com.sg/
Resource Description: A website by the National Cancer Centre Singapore.

Type of Website: Organization
Resource URL: http://www.ccf.org,sg/
Resource Description: A website by the Children's Cancer Foundation.

Type of Website: Personal
Resource URL: http://www.cancerstory.com/
Resource Description: A website that has been created by Lee Song Hong to pay tribute to a mother who fought against cancer.

Type of Website: Subject- based
Resource URL: http://www.cancerstory.com/
Resource Description: A website that overlap betwee organization and personal website.

1. Which search facility/ies did you use?

• Yahoo Singapore
• Yahoo

2. Write down all the keywords you had used for searching the resources. Identify those keywords that yield relevant or better search results.

• Cancer
• Cancer personal website

3. What are the major differences amongst the three types of websites?

• organisational- created and maintained by a particular organization, interest in facts relating to it, links to other related sites and services.
• subject-based- subject focus, overlap between these and the organizational sites or the personal sites.
• personal website- maintained by an individual, include materials on specific subject.