Daily Bookmarks 08/31/2007

IMSA 21st Century Information Fluency Project – Deep (Invisible) Web Resources

• Resources on the deep web. Some are articles with overviews, some are portals to other online resources and free databases.
   – post by christyinsdesign

NARA on Google Video

Historic films from the National Archives. Videos from NASA, WWII newsreels, and 1930s videos from the Department of the Interior.

UCSC Wiki Lab – WikiLab – The UCSC Wiki Lab  Annotated

• Look at sample Wikipedia pages with highlights based on how trustworthy the content is. Trustworthiness is based on the author’s reputation. Only 100 sample pages are available right now, but it’s an interesting concept and a cool way to view the development of Wikipedia articles.
   – post by christyinsdesign

We compute the reputation of Wikipedia authors according to how long their contributions last in the Wikipedia. Specifically, authors whose contributions are preserved, or built-upon, gain reputation; authors whose contributions are undone lose reputation.

We call this a content-driven reputation, since the reputation is computed automatically via text analysis. This contrasts with other reputation systems, such as those in use at Ebay, where buyer and seller reputations are computed on the basis of user-provided ratings.