Development of an information system for analyzing the content of websites with textual documents

This study focuses on analyzing the content of organizational websites with textual documents in order to support decision-making in the management of educational programs of a higher education organization. The presence of textual documents on an organization's website is one of the key criteria for assessing website effectiveness. These effectiveness criteria, in turn, are determined by the type of website and the type of organization that created and maintains it. The paper examines websites of higher education institutions and their specific characteristics. One such characteristic is the necessity of having curricula (working programs) available in the form of textual documents. Besides being a mandatory requirement, these curricula serve as informational materials for prospective students, thereby increasing the value of such information. Analyzing the availability and content of curricula can help address various management tasks; however, this requires designing and developing a tool to verify the presence of curricula. To solve the problem of verifying the availability and analyzing the content of curricula, an information system was designed and developed. The design phase involved creating an IDEF0 context diagram, a decomposed IDEF0 diagram, and an action (use case) diagram. The context diagram defined the system, inputs, outputs, controls, and mechanisms of the information system. The decomposed diagram includes the following modules: web parsing, document processing, curriculum analysis, data integration, and data export. The action diagram identifies the following actors: administrator, external website, database, visualization system, and includes the following use cases: website parsing, document processing, curriculum analysis, data integration, data export, and data visualization. The implementation of the information system enabled the creation of comprehensive dashboards for educational organizations, faculty-level dashboards, and department-level dashboards. The results of the system’s operation support managerial decision-making based on information about the availability of curricula on educational institution websites.

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