Electronic Gateways to Prevention Information: Working Quick and Working Smart!
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Electronic Gateways to Prevention Information: Working Quick and Working Smart! Barbie Keiser and Sandi Slappey, National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse & Neglect Information 14th National Conference on Child Abuse & Neglect, April 2, 2003 1 Today’s Objectives Determine what information concerning prevention is needed Understand what information is available Offer strategies for locating “the best” 2 Cultivating Information Expertise Developing and implementing a system An organized, logical approach Environmental scanning + monitoring Keeping up with it all Identifying “new” resources Changes to known resources Stream of information Accessing unique sources Significant trends Direct impact Value added 3 The Payoff Delivery of more timely, more accurate, more focused information to those who can make the best use of it Better decision-making capabilities Reduced information source redundancy and minimal duplication of effort 4 How the Internet Helps Access to information Information overload Timeliness of data Economics “On the web” vs. “Via the web” The invisible web Free vs. Fee-based services: options & trade-offs Customization & personalization 5 Accessing Those Important Sites WWW search engines Indexed search services Subject directories Meta-search engines Region & country-specific (http://www.arnoldit.com/lists/intlsearch.asp) Portals & vortals Linking sites Web channels & subject-specific servers 6 Social Science Malls & Gateways Resource Discovery Network (http://rdn.ac.uk) RDN virtual training site (http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk) Social workers (http://www.vts.rdn.ac.uk/tutorial/social-worker) InfoNet (http://www.socservices.com/) Social Science Information Gateway (http://www.sosig.ac.uk) Social welfare (http://www.sosig.ac.uk/social_welfare) Children (http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject listing/World-cat/child.html) 7 Searching Online: Search Engines AltaVista Inquirus Hotbot (http://inquirus.nj.nec.c Excite om/i2/inq2.pl) WebCrawler Wondir (http://www.wondir.org) Teoma Google FAST search (http://www.alltheweb.com) http://directory.googl e.com/Top/Science/ ELibrary Social_Sciences/So (http://www.elibrary.com) cial_Work/ 8 Searching Online: Directories Yahoo http://dir.yahoo.com/Social_Science/Social_Work/ http://dir.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Cultures_and_Gr oups/Children/Child_Advocacy/ EINet galaxy http://galaxy.einet.net/b/d?n=57279 Dmoz http://www.dmoz.com/Home/Family/ http://www.dmoz.com/Kids_and_Teens/Teen_Life/ 9 Caveats Size isn’t everything The freshness test Handling frames Dynamically-generated page search capability Relevancy & links 10 Why Use (and What to Look for In) a Meta-search Engine? Address unknown Integration Ability to enter search Ranking string only once Speed Interesting design De-duping of results Good response time Simple and advanced Wide choice of search search capabilities engines used Number of matches “More like this” reported from each feature search engine 11 Metasearchers proFusion FinderSeeker Beaucoup Debriefing Search Dogpile Mamma Ask Jeeves OneSeek Highway 61 www.go2net.com MetaGopher Starting Point (www.stpt.com) 1Blink.com Internet Sleuth MetaBug (www.isleuth.com) 12 Dealing With Images? Try... ixquick.com Amazing Picture Ditto.Com Machine AltaVista, Hotbot, (http://www.ncrtec.or Lycos g/picture.htm) Image surfer Web Places Clip Art (http://gallery.yahoo. Searcher com) (http://www.webplace s.com/search) 13 Need Help Choosing a Search Engine? The Spider’s Apprentice Search Engine Colossus (http://www.monash.com/spi Mallpark dap.html) Best of the Bots Boolean Searching on the (http://www.botspot.com) Internet & Searching the Search Engine Watch Internet: Recommended Gregg Notess’ Search Sites & Search Techniques Engine Showdown (http://library.albany.edu/inte rnet/searchnet.html ) Chris Sherman’s Web Search Guide (about.com) CyberSkeptic’s Guide (http://www.infotoday.com) InfoToGo 14 Professional Assistance Internet Scout Report Argus Clearinghouse (http://scout.cs.wisc.edu) (http://www.clearinghouse.net) Freepint BUBL (http://www.freepint.com) (http://www.bubl.ac.uk/link/soc. html) Internet Resources Newsletter Scholarly Internet Resource (http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/ Collections: Social Sciences & irn/irn.html) Humanities Librarians’ Index to the (http://infomine.ucr.edu/cgi Internet (http://www.lii.org) bin/search?category=liberal) Society & Social Issues Research It! (http://lii.org/search/file/society) (http://itools.com/research-it) Digital Librarian: Librariana My Virtual Reference Desk (http://www.digital (http://www.refdesk.com) librarian.com/librariana.html) 15 Add-in Tools Alexa Bookmarklets WebWhacker & WebSeeker List All Links (http://www.bluesquirrel.com) (http://www.bookmarklets.com /tools/data/index.phtml) Web Compass LinkScan (http://www.symantec.com/) (http://malch.elsop.com/quick.cgi) Copernic Dr. Watson LexiBot (http://watson.addy.com) FerretSoft Doctor HTML (http://www2.imagiware.com/RxH TML) U.K. Office for Library and Information Networking WebWatch service (http://ukoln.ac.uk/web focus/webwatch/services) 16 Taking a Journalistic Approach Who… What… Why… When… Where… How… How much? 17 Who Is Likely to Be Looking for Information Concerning Prevention? 18 Who Is Likely to Be Looking for Information Concerning Prevention? Community-based Advocacy groups institutions Researchers Family Support Center staff Nurse Home Visitors Journalists Teachers Day care providers Students Medical professionals Graduate-level Mental health Undergraduate Substance abuse CPS in-home service staff High school Other local family and child Primary grades service agency staff Law enforcement community 19 What Are They Likely to Need to Know? 20 What Are They Likely to Need to Know? “Best practices” Evaluation assistance Sources of funding Program models/designs Training curricula/guidance Statistics “Who is doing what” 21 Why Do They Need This Type of Information? 22 Why Do They Need This Type of Information? Respond to a growing concern/crisis in your community Learn more about the problem (and potential “solutions” or options for addressing the issue) Find out what’s happening in the field Help design a new program/enhance an existing program Evaluate a program Fund a new program Re-evaluate allocation of funding 23 When Should You Be Collecting Information Concerning Prevention? Crisis response Stream of information 80/20 rule 24 Why Prevention Is Important Benefits of stopping child abuse (and neglect) BEFORE it happens Consequences if we don’t Child Family Community-at-large Cost 25 Levels of Prevention Primary or Universal prevention strengthens communities and families Secondary or Selective prevention targets those “at-risk” Tertiary or Indicated prevention forestalls additional maltreatment 26 Design Services Targeting Risk Factors Primary or Universal Prevention Activities Prevent risk factors from developing in the first place Secondary or Selective Prevention Activities Address risk factors present Tertiary or Indicated Prevention Activities Conduct risk assessments to determine the level of risk for re-abuse or neglect 27 Prevention Program Models Public Awareness Activities Skills-Based Curricula for Children Parent Programs Home Visitation Programs Other 28 How Do We Know If a Prevention Program Works? Measurement Outcomes Evaluation designs 29 Where Can You Go to Find This Information? International agencies Universities, research & NGOs centers, & think tanks Government sources: Identification National, state, & local Collections Associations & not-for Libraries and other profit organizations collections concerned with child abuse Public National advocacy Academic organizations Virtual Local community groups 30 How Can We Get the Information We Need When We Need It?: Push Vs. Pull Traditional information sources (print & electronic) Books/e-books Journals/e-journals Alert services (direct mail & e-mail) Database vendors & content aggregators Personalized news sources/alerting services Field-specific sites and searches Go direct (single sites) Virtual everything About.com/parenting 31 Quality Criteria Criteria for resources and research Delivery services Archived data Sophisticated search capabilities Tips for comparing data The more detailed the publication, the greater the time lag The more accurate the statistics, the greater the time lag Appreciate how the Internet changes the equation 32 Web Site Evaluation Criteria Source credibility Date of creation Organizations and Frequency (and individual authors timeliness) of updates Quality Pay attention to extensions Reliability Who links to them? To Validity which sites do they link? Accuracy/Error rate Advocacy in check Meaning over time Purpose Completeness & Consistency Target audience Aesthetics Objectivity Accessibility/Ease of Relevance to your use work/inquiry Output options Coverage and scope Documentation Customer support Integration Value-to-cost ratio Privacy 33 International (and Regional) Agencies and NGOs United Nations European Union (http://www.europa.eu.int) UN System (http://www.unsystem.org) Navigating EU Information (http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/GSSI/e Agencies within the UN u.html) . Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights Directory of Human Rights (http://www.unhchr.ch/) Resources on the Internet Commissions (http://shr.aaas.org/dhr/search.php)