ارائه الگوئي براي وبگاه آرشيو ملي ايران

A Proposed Website for the National Archives of Iran, Based on a Study of the Websites of other Countriesʹ National Archives and Archives Expertsʹ Opinions

By using content analysis, in this research we studied 63 national archives websites which either English was their default language or had an English version of their website. After being identified, the content of the websites were downloaded using Webzip. In the next step, the features of the contents and structures of the downloaded national archives websites were extracted and analyzed. Using Microsoft Excel, the frequency of the extracted features were determined and included in a checklist. Similar items were omitted from the checklist and a preliminary attitude survey was conducted among archives experts. Based on findings, 41 important features ofthe content ofthe websites and 10 important features oftheir structure were identified. These features were included in a checklist and distributed among archives experts in order to determine the importance of each item. Among the features, 36 items relating to the content and 7 features relating to the structure of websites were considered more important and chosen for designing the proposed pattern