Information Tracking in the Arabic Digital Environment : An Analytical and Evaluative Study of the Accessibility of Websites and Databases

At a time when data analysis receives a great deal of attention, there is an urgent need to analyze information sources, and the information surplus has required more effective means to organize it, and the beneficiary has become in need of other techniques that facilitate his access to information, so the so-called “topic tracking” appeared. Or preferred to call it "Information tracking".
Despite the multiplicity of methods of tracking information, it is not known with certainty what Arab sites and databases use, and its efficiency is unknown, which required the analytical study of a sample of (100) general Arabic sites, and (100) specialized Arabic sites, And the humanities information base, with the aim of monitoring the availability of Arab websites to track information, determine the quality of these websites, monitor their terminology, analyze the data of their proposals, investigate the number of these proposals, determine their location, and then monitor the availability of Arab and foreign databases available on the Egyptian Knowledge Bank to track information, Determining the ratios of relationships between basic studies and the proposed studies in the humanities information base, monitoring the effects of correlation degrees, and determining the extent of reliance on the humanities information base to track specialized information. The study used the descriptive analytical method.
The study resulted in many results, the most important of which is that public websites were more available to track information by 55%, while only 28% of specialized websites had it available. The sites showed the importance of this service, and the lack of professionalism of the designers and developers of some sites, and it turned out that the most used information tracking terms on general sites was “You may also like” by 29%, while the most used on specialized sites was “related materials” by 7.1%, and it was “Down The “page” is the most accessible place for suggestions on general and specialized sites, and it was also found that 20.4% of the databases available on the Knowledge Bank made it possible to track information, and the relationships between the basic studies and the proposed studies in the humanities information base were divided into five levels: A percentage of 37.2%, studies of weak relationship 30.1%, studies of medium relationship 11%, studies of strong relationship 10.9%, and studies of full relationship 10.8%, and thus it is possible to rely on an information base the problem Humanity in tracking library and information increased by 32.7%, and the reason for this is its reliance in “tracking information” on the “coـــ words” method, and the weakness of objective indexing in it. Based on these results, the study presented some suggestions to improve the efficiency of information tracking, including: Legalization Keywords, the use of specialized thesauri, the use of the common quotations method, the method of semantic analysis, and the use of objectively specialized explorers.