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Apresenta pesquisa realizada com o objetivo de investigar a relação entre o tipo de informação disponibilizada nas páginas iniciais de websites de universidades brasileiras e a forma como ela está organizada, especificamente: verificar a visibilidade dada a cada tipo de informação por meio da área utilizada nas páginas iniciais dos websites das universidades escolhidas; identificar a visão das universidades em relação a seus websites; e relacionar tipos de informação disponibilizadas e tipos de organização nas páginas iniciais dos websites das universidades. Para isto, o artigo discorre sobre Arquitetura de Informação, a presença das universidades na web e o papel de suas páginas iniciais. A motivação da pesquisa baseia-se na identificação de um padrão para as informações organizadas nos websites de universidades, visto que estes agregam conteúdo para diferentes públicos-alvo. As universidades escolhidas como objeto de pesquisa foram as dez primeiras brasileiras no Webometrics Ranking of World Universities, de julho de 2010. A metodologia consiste em analisar as capturas de telas das páginas iniciais e as respostas a três questões abertas feitas aos setores de comunicação das universidades. Os resultados mostram que o tipo de informação mais freqüente é o Administrativo e institucional e a organização predominante é por Assunto. Acredita-se que o método de análise aqui proposto é útil para o estudo de websites e pode ser aplicado a diferentes tipos de instituições.
Palavras-chave: Arquitetura da Informação. Organização da Informação. Websites. Página inicial.
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The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between the type of information available on website homepages of Brazilian universities and how it is organized. That is, to verify the visibility given to each type of information through the area used in the opening pages of the chosen universities' websites, to identify the universities' vision of their websites, and also, to relate types of information available and types of organization in its opening pages. For this, the article discusses Information Architecture, the presence of universities on the web and the role of its homepages. The motivation of this research is based on identifying a pattern for the information organized on universities websites, since these aggregate content for different target audiences. The universities selected as research object were the Brazilian top ten in the Webometrics Ranking of World Universities in July 2010. The methodology consists of analyzing screenshots of the homepages, and, the answers to three open questions asked to the universities' communications sectors. The results demonstrate that the most frequent type of information is the Administrative and institutional, and also that the predominant organization is by Subject. It is believed that the method of analysis presented here is useful when studying websites and could be applied to different types of institutions.

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Nowadays, Serbia needs to disengage from the broad use of fossil fuels and turn to the “attractive” Renewable Energy Sources (RES) for energy production, since the Kyoto Protocol ratification, so as to resolve systematically the problem of energy demand. In addition, research indicates that Serbia is a country with high potential and favourable conditions for RES energy production, as the country’s potential could supply almost half of its primary energy needs. The paper provides an overview of Serbia’s energy sector status quo, so as to emphasize the necessity for RES implementation in order to balance the country’s energy deficit. The aim is to investigate and present the country’s prospects in the RES sector, revealing the proven RES potential and pointing out that the unexploited RES potential together with an adequately well structured energy sector would create great possibilities and conditions for a new market. Copyright © 2011 International Energy and Environment Foundation...