I think the W3C's Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) is an
emerging mechanism to enable anyone to supply arbitrary ratings to
websites, and a way for users who care to become aware of those ratings.
See http://www.w3.org/PICS/
-dan
"Barathy, RamaSubramaniam" wrote:
>
> The whole thing for sure subjective.
> The point is that we need to differentiate the
> content type, customers addressed type, the level
> of usability, the level of easeness to access the
> content, the ease of use of the service provided by the site,
> It might in the starting look like an quality check of the
> user interface, but it is lot more and many more other elements
> like authentication etc.
>
> What interests me is also the way these sites are built, the
> process they go throughin developing it that largely defines
> the quality of web site.
>
> It is not that easy to quantify the whole quality check, that is why
> it could be a nice research topic for some, nice revenue generation for
> some and a lot of service to the internet community for some.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mahadevan Iyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 5:51 PM
> To: Barathy, RamaSubramaniam
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Quality task force on web sites
>
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Barathy, RamaSubramaniam wrote:
>
> > Hello Everybody,
> >
> > Would it not be nice to have some sort of quality control task force that
> > assigns a quality level for the web sites through out the world.
> >
> > This would make the site developers to bring in the higher quality to the
> > net.
> > This could be used as an additional criteria in the search engines.
> > This could make higher quality sites to be a revenue generator.
> >
> >
> > With more and more web sites, we r getting lost in finding quality
> > information.
>
> What quality of a web site are you referring to?
> Quality of service or Quality of Content? The latter is subjective.
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Dan Stern - AT&T Labs - http://www.research.att.com/info/dstern
