인터넷 Search Engine을 이용한 토지 정보 검색의 효율화 방안 : Effective Land Information Search On the Internet

인터넷 검색엔진을 이용한 토지정보 검색의 효율화 방안을 제안했다.

The Internet is an unstructured information resource - no overall control, a mixture of serveces, no standard format, no subject organization or comprehensive index - compared with printed and electronic sources already familiar to librarians. There are a great deal of land information on the WWW. Many government organizations such as USGS (the United States Geological Survey) post land-related data on their Internet Home Pages and some universities offer online GIS classes. Some online pullishers are posting articles and news on their Home Pages. Therefore, it is necessary for us to search these information more effectively.

There are two major types of Internet search tools that help people in locating Internet resources. The first type arranges Internet resources in some sort of classifictory schemes. They are called net directories. The main function of net directories is for browsing, collecting, arranging and annotating online resouces require a great deal of human efforts. As the size of Internet resouces is getting bigger day by day, it is almost impossible for us to collect and classify all information on the net. The second type of Internet search tools is called keyword search engine. The searching, insted of browsing, is the main feature of this engine.

We are going to introduce some of the major search engines, comparing their features and provide effective methods for searching land-related information on the net. In order to achieve this purpose, this paper adopts following methods. In order to compare the features of search engines, this study on the effective land information search conducted reviews of literatures. Especially online materials were used for this purpose. Directory browsing, keyword search for land information were conducted. Study results show that AltaVista is the best keyword search engine and HotBot is the best phrase search engine.