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Local governments are going digital! To track their progress, researchers want to analyze their websites. This study explores finding these websites and understanding their content. Three methods for website discovery were compared, with search engines providing the most results. Different techniques to embed websites were also tested, comparing them by cluster analysis and performance. Homepage2Vec, which analyzes both text and visuals, performed best. This approach seems promising for monitoring European local government websites, but Homepage2Vec’s use of visuals needs further exploration.

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Towards Website X-Ray for Europe’s Municipalities: Unveiling Digital Transformation with Multimodal Embeddings

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  • 发表日期：

    2025年

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  • Jonathan Gerber,
  • Bruno Kreiner,
  • Jasmin Saxer,
  • Andreas Weiler

摘要

Local governments are going digital! To track their progress, researchers want to analyze their websites. This study explores finding these websites and understanding their content. Three methods for website discovery were compared, with search engines providing the most results. Different techniques to embed websites were also tested, comparing them by cluster analysis and performance. Homepage2Vec, which analyzes both text and visuals, performed best. This approach seems promising for monitoring European local government websites, but Homepage2Vec’s use of visuals needs further exploration.