Anapedia – An Open Web-based Encyclopedia for Indonesian Children

Nur Hayatin (Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang)
Rizky Ade Mahendra (Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang)
Dwi Arif Al-mubarok (Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang)
Ahmad Dhana Renomi (Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang)
Elbert Setiadharma (Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang)
Adhi Bagus Setiawan (Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang)
Tri Fidriyan Arya (Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang)
Farid Dadhee (Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang)
Fadil Ramadhan (Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang)
Sandy Young (Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang)
Ahmad Al Ghivani (Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang)

Journal of Information Systems Engineering and Business Intelligence
Vol. 5 No. 1 (2019): April

Background: The limited number of web and child applications becomes a challenge especially providing web or education app that can be a source of information referral to help the school task, especially for the needs of children in Indonesia.Objective: This study answers the challenge by designing a special encyclopedia for children called Anapedia, an open web-based encyclopedia for children.Methods: Anapedia designed for the quality of content for education and design for entertainment that is suitable for children's needs by considering the children cognitive abilities.Results: The features are full-color, simple layout, large font sizes, and simple language with illustrated drawing to make it easier. For maintain the quality of the articles, this app involves the educator as a contributor who have better understand the characteristic and need of school-level children. This also provided a search feature based on keywords using information retrieval system with spell checker.Conclusion: The results of testing result with Black Box Method, it can be concluded that the entire system being tested has been functioning properly in accordance with expectations.