Defeng+Observatory

By Scott Mallari; Fall 2015
== =Dengfeng Obsevatory=

Author:
Unknown The website belongs to the "Dengfeng Municipal Bureau of Culture Relics," they leave it open to the public as a historical monument.

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The website gives a lot of information on the Dengfeng observatory. It gives the location, geographical position, general description, brief inventory, history, cultural and symbolic dimensions all on the website of the observatory. ===== 

Last Updated:
Unknown

Date Reviewed:
12/9/2015

Reviewed By:
Scott Mallari

Accuracy:
The website seems to be accurate, although there is no last known update, the information seems to be accurate about the observatory.

Readability/Clarity:
The website's audience seems to target anyone interested or doing research. Possibly middle schoolers and older and the webpage is easy to read.

Ease of Navigation:
It is easy to scroll the page because everything is laid out pretty simple on the website, and there are more tabs of more info on the observatory.



Author:
Troy Cline

Overview:
This website describes the Dengfeng observatory as "Gaocheng". I believe it is another name for the observatory or another portion of it. On the website it describes the observatory location being about 8 miles away from Dengfeng. So it leaves me to believe that the Dengfeng observatory is made up of different observatories.

Last Updated:
Unknown

Date Reviewed:
12/9/2015

Reviewed By:
Scott Mallari

Accuracy:
The website to me, seems to be a little bit iffy. The introduction of the Gaocheng is very small and there doesn't seem to be much information.

Readability/Clarity:
The webpage is easy to read and easy to navigate through, theres only 3 other links within the Gaocheng page, other than that it only seems to describe Gaocheng minimally.

Ease of Navigation:
Read above ^



Author:
Unknown

Overview:
This website seems to be a website of different things at the Dengfeng Observatory. Like the picture above of the Sundial, there are other pictures as well that are at the observatory like astronomical instruments that were used there.

Last Updated:
Unknown

Date Reviewed:
12/9/2015

Reviewed By:
Scott Mallari

Accuracy:
The website seems pretty credible. It in fact is a travel website that shows the different things at the Observatory, as you go through the photo they have a nice paragraphed description of what is being shown.

Readability/Clarity:
The website is pretty straight forward, like i said above each photo has a paragraphs worth of description of the things at the observatory.

Ease of Navigation:
Very easy to navigate through, each photo is numbered by page, right under the photo is the description.



Author:
Unknown

Overview:
On this website, it shows an exact replica of Gaocheng at the Dengfeng Observatory. The replica is located in Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia, also there are other exact replicas of other astronomical monuments there as well. This website shows the scaled down versions of the astronomical monuments as well as tell their history briefly.

Last Updated:
11/13/2011

Date Reviewed:
12/9/2015

Reviewed By:
Scott Mallari

Accuracy:
It seems pretty accurate, they are exact replicas on the site and with some research the descriptions are like other websites descriptions of the astronomical monuments.

Readability/Clarity:
The website is easy to read, with just brief descriptions.

Ease of Navigation:
Very easy to navigate through, there are other url links that you can click on to navigate to other pages.

Author:
Marilyn Shea

Overview:
This website was to educate the audience on Guo Shoujing. He was a inventor, mathematician and astronomer and was the founder of the Dengfeng observatory. The website provides pictures and brief descriptions on his history and of what exactly is at the observatory.

Last Updated:
May 2007

Date Reviewed:
12/9/2015

Reviewed By:
Scott Mallari

Accuracy:
It seems very accurate, it has about the same description as the other sites on the observatory and info on the creator of it. The descriptions seem to give a better explanation of the observatory.

Readability/Clarity:
The audience of this website should have no problems reading the website, it its laid out very well with pictures then brief descriptions, and you just scroll downward, there is no other links.

Ease of Navigation:
Very easy to navigate through, just scroll down to see image and description, no need to click anywhere else.