Two aspects:
- Involvement, or the center of attention
- information provided by the resource itself
- information provided by other resources
- Connectivity
- the resource can be linked to by the outside world
- the resource cannot be linked to
Two aspects:
Four Categories - The Product of 'Involvement' & 'Connectivity'
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STAND-ALONE
self-centered, cannot be connected to, no URL eg. Grolliers Encyclopaedia |
'NET-ALONE'
self-centered, can be connected to, has URL eg. WWW Telstra whitepages database http://www.whitepages.com.au/ |
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'SPRINGBOARD'
other-centered, cannot be connected to, no URL eg. a CD-ROM based guide to the Internet |
NETWORKED
other-centered, can be connected to, has URL eg. Asian Studies WWW VL http://coombs.anu.edu.au/WWWVL-AsianStudies.html |