ABSTRACT

the vast amount of information on the World Wide Web is created and published by many different types of providers. Unlike books and journals, most of this information is not subject to editing or peer review by experts. This lack of quality control and the explosion of web sites make the task of finding quality information on the web especially critical. Meanwhile new facilities for producing web pages such as Blogs make this issue more significant because Blogs have simple content management tools enabling non-experts to build easily updatable web diaries or online journals. On the other hand despite a decade of active research in information quality (IQ) there is no a content management system (CMS) to facilitate measuring information quality on the Blogs yet. This paper presents a novel CMS for ranking quality of information on the Blog. The CMS includes appropriate criteria for ranking Blogs according to IQ parameters. The developed CMS collect and calculate IQ scores of Blogs automatically.