Lecture: This weeks lecture was on Evaluation & Authentication. Information quality is the first issue we addressed. The context of the WWW has quick and convenient exchange of information, anyone can create web content, information is now bypasses traditional filters and there is no enforceable quality control. The reasons why the web became unruly is: the WWW was developed from the Arpanet, connectivity, access, retrieval and sending data was the focus of Arpanet research and security of the network had little concern early on. Evaluating information quality on the WWW was the second issued covered. Some principles to remember are: what are we measuring, why does the information resource exist and is the information fit for use. Some suggested criteria for evaluating information on a website are: accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency, coverage, credibility, reasonableness, support, publishing body, bias, other sources and verifiability. Some authentication considerations are: where is it (.com .org), who wrote it and references.
Workshop: After looking at the first website in the tasks I found the information to be the same as what was taught to us in the lecture.
The second task was to evaluate 2 of the 5 websites given, I chose: A trip through the 60's - to me this site had accuracy, purpose, detail and design, and overall worth, but did not have authorship. I would say that this site is credible. The second website is Psychedelic 60's - this site had all of the criteria to make it a credible website.
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