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  Using Internet as a Research Tool

Topic 2 Evaluation of Internet Resources

Problems    Criteria    Internet Resources    Citation  Evaulation

Evaluating Services

  • Evaulating Services
    • Uses external rating system to rate the materials, commonly used for identification of adult contents
    • PICS (Platform for Internet Content Selection)
      • Used to include or exclude materials based on a rating scale
      • Allows materials to be rated
    • Site authors indicate the age range, level of violence, etc. of their site and include the values within the site's metadata

  • Internet Content Rating Association
    • Uses online questionaires to enable authors rate their materials
    • Elements include PICS metadata and a logo which the author can select to display on their site to indicate that it has been rated
    • Issues
      • nPros and cons of using rating tools, logos and metadata
      • nBe aware of available techniques as well as their limitations

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