How to:  Search Methodologies

• Each of the following are separate How to documents for operation and maintenance of:
  • Feedly
    • 20200521 FIPA Feedly.docx
  • Canadian Press
    • 202207 How To -Canadian Press.docx
  • Transparency Spotlight
    • 202207 How To -Transparency Spotlight.docx
  • Google Alerts
    • 202207 How To -Google Alerts.docx
• This document details the combined search methodologies FIPA employees in its mandate areas. These are the external inputs and internal outputs.
• Documenting them enables review, alignment and gap analysis.

Transparency Spotlight

• SUMMARY: The defined search methodology that narrows and differentiates all news stories aggregated from Media Outlets to those that are informed by access to information from public bodies and reflect the transparency of public bodies.
  • PROQUEST
    • Database Sources
      • Canadian Newsstream: captures most major national and regional newspapers, cable news networks
      • Canadian Business & Current Affairs: captures most major professional and industry publications and academic journals
    • Search Settings
      • [CHECK] Full Text
      • Terms
        • OR
          • “FREEDOM OF INFORMATION”
          • “ACCESS TO INFORMATION”
          • “REQUEST FOR INFORMATION”
      • Search Depth
        • Last 30 Days
      • Source Type
        • Blogs, Podcasts, & Websites
        • Magazines
        • Newspapers
      • Result Page Options
        • Sort Results By
          • Most Recent First
        • Items Per Page
          • 100
        • [CHECK] Exclude Duplicate Documents
  • FEEDLY
    • Custom Sources (Feeds + Web Alerts)
      • Feeds
        • SOURCES – Independent Media for Transparency Spotlight: custom source compilation of Digital Independent Media in Canada
          • [Current List of Sources Available Here]
        • SOURCES – Non-Proquest Outlets, BC: custom source compilation of Canadian corporate-owned, community or regional news media that are NOT covered by Proquest’s Canadian Newsstream
          • [Current List of Sources Available Here] – Unfinished
      • Web Alert
        • STORIES – Transparency Spotlight: Based on the feeds listed above, which aggregate all stories published by the news media that comprise them, Web Alerts will filter the predefined news media landscape for stories using keywords.
  • CANADIAN PRESS
    • Command News
      • Freedom of Information Canada
• ASSESSMENTS
  • Article Qualification
    • [See Assessment Document Here]
  • Aberant News Media Qualification
    • [See Assessment Document Here]

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