Computer Science > Computers and Society
[Submitted on 26 Jun 2020]
Title:Towards an automated repository for indexing, analysis and characterization of municipal e-government websites in Mexico
View PDFAbstract:This article addresses a problem in the electronic government discipline with special interest in Mexico: the need for a concentrated and updated information source about municipal e-government websites. One reason for this is the lack of a complete and updated database containing the electronic addresses (web domain names) of the municipal governments having a website. Due to diverse causes, not all the Mexican municipalities have one, and a number of those having it do not present information corresponding to the current governments but, instead, to other previous ones. The scarce official lists of municipal websites are not updated with the sufficient frequency, and manually determining which municipalities have an operating and valid website in a given moment is a time-consuming process. Besides, website contents do not always comply with legal requirements and are considerably heterogeneous. In turn, the evolution development level of municipal websites is valuable information that can be harnessed for diverse theoretical and practical purposes in the public administration field. Obtaining all these pieces of information requires website content analysis. Therefore, this article investigates the need for and the feasibility to automate implementation and updating of a digital repository to perform diverse analyses of these websites. Its technological feasibility is addressed by means of a literature review about web scraping and by proposing a preliminary manual methodology. This takes into account known, proven, techniques and software tools for web crawling and scraping. No new techniques for crawling or scraping are proposed because the existing ones satisfy the current needs. Finally, software requirements are specified in order to automate the creation, updating, indexing, and analyses of the repository.
References & Citations
Bibliographic and Citation Tools
Bibliographic Explorer (What is the Explorer?)
Litmaps (What is Litmaps?)
scite Smart Citations (What are Smart Citations?)
Code, Data and Media Associated with this Article
CatalyzeX Code Finder for Papers (What is CatalyzeX?)
DagsHub (What is DagsHub?)
Gotit.pub (What is GotitPub?)
Papers with Code (What is Papers with Code?)
ScienceCast (What is ScienceCast?)
Demos
Recommenders and Search Tools
Influence Flower (What are Influence Flowers?)
Connected Papers (What is Connected Papers?)
CORE Recommender (What is CORE?)
arXivLabs: experimental projects with community collaborators
arXivLabs is a framework that allows collaborators to develop and share new arXiv features directly on our website.
Both individuals and organizations that work with arXivLabs have embraced and accepted our values of openness, community, excellence, and user data privacy. arXiv is committed to these values and only works with partners that adhere to them.
Have an idea for a project that will add value for arXiv's community? Learn more about arXivLabs.