James Weinheimer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>...
>3) selecting
>This may be the toughest of all to solve. In the absence of clearly
>defined "publishers" (as has been discussed on this listserve) how can a
>selector make a decision as to the quality of a web page? The only
>solution I see is to have specialists evaluate the site, or preface
>everything with "Beware!"
>...
There have been some interesting developments recently in
automating the process of having 'specialists evaluate the
site'.
The Google search engine uses a citation based ranking system
to order returned search results. Basically, a page is
ranked high if there are many and/or 'important' pages
referencing it. 'Important' pages are those which themselves
have many pages pointing at them.
It is currently a research project and has many shortcomings,
but I think the designers have abandoned their studies to
commercialize it.
Combining a good citation system (for ranking) with metadata
searching (for selection) could be very promising!
The Google experimental search engine:
http://google.stanford.edu/
Papers describing how it works:
http://google.stanford.edu/google_papers.html
A newsy article about Google & IBM's 'Clever' project:
http://www.thestandard.com/articles/display/0,1449,1826,00.html
Kent Fitch Ph: +61 2 6276 6711
ITS CSIRO Canberra Australia [log in to unmask]
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