I'll give more comment later after I finish moving, but I think digg.com's method of rating may be a decent way of doing this. One suggestion I have posted before is the development of an open-source version of such a ratings system that others can tie into and place into their own software.
Jesse > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard > K. Miller > Sent: Thursday, October 20, 2005 7:02 PM > To: LDS Open Source Software > Subject: Re: [Ldsoss] new members > > I totally love your ideas. It will be awesome to see what we > can do once our genealogy is tagged with metadata and > available through API's. > > On a similar note, I have been thinking how nice it would be > to have a tagging system like del.icio.us for rating website > content -- from "true, accurate, uplifting" to "disingenuous, > misleading, pornographic." And one might build a Firefox > extension/toolbar that would check the rating before showing > the website (if it's available) and not display sites below > the user's desired threshold. If I happen to find a > pornographic or obscene site, I can tag it and save everyone > else the trouble of ever finding it. > > On a separate note, a Firefox extension could also filter > obscene language from web pages. > > Richard > > > > Sorry to respond to my own post, but my ideas are flowing. > Some of you > > may be familiar with del.icio.us, a web-based bookmark manager. > > Users can post urls and associate any number of 'tags' with these > > urls. A tag is simply a single word associated with the url in > > question. > > > > Imagine then a service like del.icio.us that tied into this > > hypothetical system the church could develop around its digitized > > microfilm images in which users could associate any number of tags > > with a particular image. Although the church through its extraction > > efforts will be indexing the actual text of each image, > such a service > > (which wouldn't have to be developed or maintained by the > > church) could allow people to add useful metadata to each image. > > Essentialy a folksonomy[1] centered around the digitized images. > > > > Taking this a step further, one could build a service around this > > hypothetical API such that users could create RDF "semantic-web"[2] > > data associated with each image, such as "John Doe was born > in Sussex, > > England in 1815", which would then be machine-readable, and much in > > the same way proofs can be deduced in a relational database > based on > > the basic information stored in relations. Imagine being > able to query > > "show me all images for a John Doe born in Sussex, England within 5 > > years of 1815". > > > > The same "semantic annotation" (via RDF) could be done for > family tree > > information as well. > > > > It's my firm belief that there are applications that will surface > > which we can't even imagine at this time that will be possible with > > open APIs such as these. > > > > Just some (more) thoughts. > > > > -- Dan > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ldsoss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss > _______________________________________________ Ldsoss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ldsoss.org/mailman/listinfo/ldsoss
