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I understand this from a standpoint of just general trust, but I don't see it as a problem from technological trust. Had someone else done this, and you came ab
by th0ma5 16y ago
I understand this from a standpoint of just general trust, but I don't see it as a problem from technological trust. Had someone else done this, and you came about it, you would probably never go to that site again. The trust layers in the SemWeb stack are just like HTTPS, but anything beyond that is a valid philosophical argument outlined by Cory Doctorow's Metacrap piece. Arguably this is also the open world vs. closed world problem, too, and the concept of authority is purely a technical one.
- cschneid 16y agoFrom a pragmatist standpoint, something like google can't trust an RDF document any more than it can trust the META keywords tag. Anything a site can assert about itself will end up as fodder for spam and manipulation. Not to say that individual trusted datasets don't benefit from the RDF logic layers you can apply. Just that it's mostly impossible to have anything more than a set of curated datasets.