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Berners-Lee Wants Truth Ratings for w ebsites

Berners-Lee Wants Truth Ratings for w ebsites. Tim Berners-Lee. Director of the World Wide Web Consortium founded in 1994 To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web.

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Berners-Lee Wants Truth Ratings for w ebsites

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  1. Berners-Lee Wants Truth Ratings for websites

  2. Tim Berners-Lee • Director of the World Wide Web Consortium founded in 1994 • To lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing protocols and guidelines that ensure long-term growth for the Web. • W3C has published more than 110 Web standards and guidelines, called W3C Recommendations • Professor at MIT and University of Southampton, UK • Invented the World Wide Web in 1989 and wrote the first browser called WorldWideWeb which was renamed Nexus to remove confusion with the program and the abstract information space • His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web Technology spread Source – http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/#Bio

  3. Tim Berners-Lee Tim Berners-Lee said, “there needed to be new systems that would give websites a label for trustworthiness once they had been proved reliable sources.” “I’m not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways,” said Tim Berners-Lee, “So I’d be interested in different organisationslabelling websites in different ways.” Source – http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7613201.stm

  4. What type of sites? Medical Sites? How-to Sites? Online Encyclopedia? News Sites? Blogs?

  5. Medical Sites When it comes to accessing and using health information online: consumers are most frustrated with irrelevant hits (46 percent) and content credibility (36 percent). 54% of people using the internet for health information feel they have relevant hits 64% of people using the internet for health information feel the site is credible. Source – http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_M0EIN/is/2001_Jan_30/ai_69704311

  6. Wikipedia vs. Knol “The big difference is authorship is highlighted,” Cedric Dupont, Knol product manager, said in an interview with CNET News. “In the long term we hope that encyclopedias, such as Wikipedia, would use knols as references… If Knol is successful, it will help Wikipedia.” Source – http://news.cnet.com9301-1023_3-9997426-93.html

  7. Within the Browser Rather than having the author of the site control the seal of approval, all browsers will be able to notify the viewer whether or not the content of the site is trustworthy or not.

  8. “So I’d be interested in different organisationslabelling websites in different ways.” - Tim Berners-Lee

  9. Solution One Have different organizations control different types of sites and evaluate whether or not they are trustworthy or not.

  10. Solution Two Have a large organization control the ratings for all websites and contract out the evaluations to area specific professionals

  11. Solution Three Have viewers rate whether or not they feel the site is trustworthy or not. Based on other viewers you will be able to judge whether or not the site is trustworthy.

  12. Discussion Question Based on the given solutions, what do you feel is the best way to solve the problem and why would or wouldn’t these solutions work? Have different organizations control the evaluations of different types of sites Have one organization control everything and contract out the evaluations to area specific professionals Have viewers rate whether or not they feel the site is trustworthy or not

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