[OPLIN 4cast] OPLIN 4Cast #259: A plan for improving Internet information

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OPLIN 4Cast #259: A plan for improving Internet information
December 7th, 2011

<http://www.oplin.org/4cast/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/hypothesis_logo.png>We 
all know that the Internet contains an abundance of misinformation. 
Librarians often spend a lot of time explaining to their patrons that 
you can't believe everything you read on the 'Net. But what if you could 
attach critiques to news stories, blogs, scientific articles, books, 
terms of service, ballot initiatives, legislation and regulations, 
software code, and more? Wouldn't that improve the quality of 
information on the Internet? That's the hypothesis behind Hypothes.is 
<http://hypothes.is/>.

    * Hypothes.is: a peer-review layer for the whole Internet
      <http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/hypothesis_a_peer-review_layer_for_the_internet.php>
      (ReadWriteWeb/Marshall Kirkpatrick) "It's a peer review system to
      check, verify and critique content all over the Web - and beyond.
      'Improving the credibility of the information we consume is
      humanity's grandest challenge,' [project leader Dan] Whaley says.
      Topic experts will be enlisted in addition to crowdsourcing, a
      reputation system, browser plug-ins and APIs are on the roadmap
      and all the data will be stored at the Internet Archive."
    * Would your blog stand up to criticism? Here comes peer review
      <http://www.forbes.com/sites/haydnshaughnessy/2011/10/21/would-your-blog-stand-up-to-criticism-and-should-you-care/>
      (Forbes/Haydn Shaughnessy) "How do we, writers and readers, decide
      the viewpoints that really make sense, that make a contribution
      and somehow move us on? Through Facebook likes? Really? And what
      do we make of the obligation to play a bit part in the science of
      the day, the world we live in, to make more sense of it rather
      than add to the noise? If you blog you should care about critique."
    * Hypothes.is could become a crucial tool for skeptics
      <http://skeptools.wordpress.com/2011/10/21/hypothesis-hypothes-is-crucial-tool-skeptics-peer-review-internet/>
      (SkepTools/Tim Farley) "There is a huge amount of misinformation
      out there. People believe in pseudoscience, the paranormal and
      more. They make bad decisions based on these beliefs that have
      very bad consequences <http://whatstheharm.net/>. The job of
      scientific skepticism is to point out the errors in the
      information underlying these belief systems, and help people learn
      to find their way away from them. But the platforms (web sites,
      blogs) on which these ideas are espoused are often biased."
    * Hypothes.is: a Kickstarter project to peer review the Web
      <http://techcrunch.com/2011/10/31/hypothes-is/> (TechCrunch/Erick
      Schonfeld) "People in the system with the highest reputations can
      up-vote the best comments and down-vote the worst ones. It's like
      Quora or StackOverflow applied to the entire Web. Web annotation
      services never seem to take hold
      <http://techcrunch.com/2008/10/08/reframe-it-retreads-web-annotation-as-a-browser-add-on>
      (see Third Voice, Reframe It, Diigo, etc). But if you could
      actually add a layer of comments that revealed better information
      than on the underlying page, it might have some appeal."

*/Standards fact:/*

Hypothes.is is based on a new draft standard for annotating digital 
documents that is currently being developed by the Open Annotation 
Collaboration <http://openannotation.org/>, a consortium that includes 
the Internet Archive, the National Information Standards Organization 
(NISO), O'Reilly Books, Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and others.
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