The need for evaluation when managing the IMIA.ORG web-site.
The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) has built up a web-site to support international scientific exchange and facilitate organizational tasks. Regular monitoring is required to get information on whether the site is actually used and by whom. Main aspects of the evaluation are function, structure and contents. As main evaluation methods the logfile analysis and user questionnaires are used. The number of visits to IMIA's web-site has constantly increased in the last year. In January 1998 the site had 418 visits, in December 1998 there were 6002 visits. The user questionnaire showed that the web-site offers an adequate platform for the members. It is concluded that the members as the main target group are reached by the service and in addition that the growing number of non-members require further development of the public part of the site.
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Dept. of Nephrology & Rheumatology, University Hospital Goettingen, Germany.
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Rienhoff
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D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D008492:Medical Informatics Computing; D012958:Societies, Scientific