> In effect, regardless of the wrapper, unless you have the original 1959 > first episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle, you probably can't answer those > trivia question correctly.
There are some approaches to organize these decentralized verification processes in the field of certificates. E.g. cacert.org, where you need a certain credit to sign and need a certain number of signers and documents verified. Maybe one could think about something like that for digital content. If I get the episode from 1959 as digital with the signature from a public library, I might trust it. If not, there might be a second one around, signed by another library, and if both are identical I might trust. Or one copy signed by two libraries. The question is if those libraries will spend the money on people verifying their digitized content, as this is not to be automated. And most of them suffer already from the efforts necessary to digitize content without "proof-reading"... Maybe the cheap, quick and dirty character of the web is part of its very nature, with proofed and verified content existing only on some small expensive islands... ;-) Lars. _______________________________________________ vos-d mailing list vos-d@interreality.org http://www.interreality.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vos-d
