Digitial everything is here to stay. I know there is the argument that this violates the free market. But really, I don;t think it does. I think this can be part of an unregulated market. No one forces researchers to give money to make their work open access.  And people are ingenious, so I’m sure they will find a way to make open access journals and other things profitable. i mean, there is a huge potential demand for them all over the world. How many thousands of universities and high schools that want their students to get into college exist? Government agencies, museums, archives, historical sicieties, libraries? Thousands upon thousands more. There is a huge market to license journals to. And if they do it for free, they can certainly wait a period of 3 or 5 years before adding journal issues to open access archives, thus making those who really need to read it pay for it, and then letting it slip into the open access after the time expires. Advertising can be used as well.

I like open access because it allows a poor person like me to have more resources at my disposal for research, which is hard enough as it is.

Ok, secondly, I enjoyed the website “The Differences Slavery Made.” This is a great website. It has sections outlining the main arguments that the authors are trying to make when comparing the counties of Franklin, PA and Augusta, VA.  But then it offers all the evidence they used in digital format, including drawings, maps, letters, diaries, etc. If it cites a newspaper article, then the website has a link to the article so you can look for yourself. The site also lumps the evidence in categories, like commerce, crops, campaign of 1860, property, race, religion, and town development, all to show the differences and similarities of these two counties. All of this allows the reader to decide for himself where and how he will analyze their evidence they present. It’s not like a book where you go in one direction to the finish, in this website, you take your own path to analyze the evidence. I loved it.

Oh, and my last bit. I also loved Wordle. Word clouds are fun. I plugged in the entire text from a paper I’m writing right now in History 711 on the media’s portrayal of the Nez Perce War, an Indian conflict in Montana and Idaho in 1877, and I got to see the words that were used the most and had the greatest weight in my paper. I wasn’t surprised to see the results, but it was an interesting way to look at my writing from another angle. Plus, I can print off my pretty word cloud. So Yeah, I liked it.

So no snarkiness from me this week. I liked all three of these. I haven’t Read the book and accompanying article yet, but I’ll let you all know what I think of them by the end of the weekend.

Just, uh, look at it as an actual presentation or you’ll be confused.

SacFox Nation

So digitization for my site. I gots me some ideas for it.

When it comes to actually constructing my site, there will only really be digitization for my photo files and videos. Photos will be of the objects that I will describe on my website. I just decided that I’m going to hire a firm to do this, because it’s so time consuming and there are lots of things that can go wrong. You get just a few bits in a file wrong, and it won’t work. PERIOD. So I need a company to do this for me. But I’ve got some guidelines that I’d want followed.

1) I want to have Tiff files of every image going into my database to store just in case something goes wrong and I need to replace them.

2) Files on the actual site will be in JPEG format, because they will take up less room on the server and will still be nice and clear to use.

3) I want my photos to be 24 bit color. Black and white just won’t cut it on this website at all for me.

4) I’m going to use Quicktime for the videos that will be used to describe how objects are used in the current day, and I will also use this for the language section, because I plan to just have videos for the language sessions as well.

5) What I’d like to do is take photos of the objects myself, and I’d use a digital cameras and turn over all the photos to whatever company that I use to encode them for the website. This will allow me to have my own copies of them, especially when I or others would be doing write-ups of the objects and artifacts in the database for the servers.

6) I’d like to use XML format when coding any items for the site, because I’ve heard over and over again how simple it is to use. But I guess that would be up to the company that would be coding everything for the website.

I guess the quality control would be up to the company’s standards. It’s another reason why I’d like to use one for coding of the site. I just know I’d mess it up somewhere along the way, haha. We all know, like I said earlier, that in coding, even 95% accuracy will show up in serious errors. Files might not work at all, or there might be typos or other discreptancies that might be hard to find and could hurt the integrity of the site itself. So I don;t want that to happen, so I’d be willing, if this is an exercise in something I’d want, to pay the money to make this happen.

So preservation. This is something I need to talk about in class. I know I need to have a backup. I’ll probably have two…in different locations. Should they be on different servers, or should I just buy two different external hard drives that can be one Terabyte each to store all this information on so that if something happens I can grab one and somehow get the information to a server to quickly get the site back up and running? Also, I plan on frequently updating my Quicktime files so that they can keep being used in the future. I’d like the developers of the code to use good documentation when creating it so that in the future if an issue comes up I and others I will have help me to either fix the code, update it, or write entirely new code will know exactly the particulars of how the website’s code was written and why. I have the feeling I’d be a pretty demanding customer for whatever firm I hire to create the code and digitize my videos and phot files, but whatever, they’ll live. I like the idea of using a README file like the book said in chapter 8 (pg 231) to write notes on when I might have added a search engine, or when I uploaded photos or had code written, etc, so I can keep a good file of the website’s production and maintenance. Finally, I am confident my site would be around for a long time because it would be the home website of an entire American Indian nation. I’d hope that they would either have the $ to keep it running or we would try to have an institution take care of it, like a local university, a state government, or the Bureau of Indian Affairs? Who knows. But that would obviously be the ideal for this website.

Lets move on to GoogleBooks and Open Library. I dislike both sites. I didn’t really find what I was looking for in them. I did 2 searches. The first was of Brave New World. GoogleBooks let me see a limited preview only. Open Library had nothign on it. Then I tried 1984. GoogleBooks also only had a limited preview, and open Library said it had a full text version for me to read, but when I clicked on the link got an error message, so I couldn’t read it. I think Ill just stick with going to a real library for another 5 years before I trust this technology. Sorry if that sounds snarky, but I didn’t have a very good experience with the sites, and after trying for 10 minutes on each, I lost my patience.  Though GoogleBooks looks prettier as a website.

All right, hope that made sense to you all. I’ll see you in class tomorrow.

1) Most of it will be copyrighted by the nation itself, or the website. I guess that would be a decision best left to whoever makes these decisions (maybe the Tribal Council?) This would include sections on history, government, myths, current day objects that are explained, etc. So that will be easy to address.

2) The hard part is the section devoted to artifacts from the past. Now I believe the nation will have many object on their own to add to the database. These will be easy for copyright issues, and will be just like in the sections I just mentioned. But I’m sure that this site will want to use objects from collections in various museums, archives, etc. But will these institutions let the site us them in the first place? if not, then I guess they won;t be used at all. If they do let the site use them, will they place caveats on the site on how they can be used. I can think of lots of these possible caveats, and I’m sure there will be a million others that I can’t even begin to describe, seeing as I’m not a copyright lawyer. Would the tribe even agree to those caveats, and if they don’t I guess they would not be using them. But what if these museums have important items associated with the tribe like something assoaicted with Black Hawk (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hawk_%28chief%29), or a religious item? Not putting them in would hamper the site’s telling of this tribe’s past for the tribal members and members of the public who use the site.

3) What do we do if someone uses copyrighted materials from the site in a way that is illegal? Personally, if my site was used in an illegal way, I probably wouldn’t mind, because I wouldn’t be doing this for profit, and I’m all for the proliferation of media files for free (which would get me a lot of ugly stares from the music industry, but I really don’t give a damn), but members of the tribe might mind, especially if it is of objects that members of the tribe are only allowed to see. Would we want a lawyer on retainer or not just in case this sort of thing happens? What does it do for the PR of the tribe too? Would this be a negative or a positive? I guess with the right people, you can put a positive spin on antything from PR perspective, so I guess we would want one.

Well, those are just a few ideas. Can anyone else help me out here? What do you all think?

For my website, I have decided to do an interactive website created for the Fox/Sauk American Indian nation, living in Oklahoma. It will be an interactive website both for members of the nation, and for those outside the nation who are interested in this tribe’s history, artifacts, and life in the present-day. This will be a window of the nation to the outside world, for anyone to look into.

The audience will consist primarily of Fox/Sauk nation members, and also of the greater academic community, both at the collegiate and high school levels. I would expect students in American Indian history, American  history, and high school students to use this site. When users click into the site, they will be presented with 2 options: either to use the English –language version, or the Sauk/Fox language version of the website.

I believe this site is necessary for the greater historical community. There is a great deal of information on Native American tribes in museums and such, but there are few places that I have seen where this information is given from the American Indians’ point of view. The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian comes to mind, but I know there is still skepticism in the American Indian tribes towards white governments interpreting their history, even if they are involved themselves. This site will be built for members of the Fox/Sauk nation by members of the Fox/Sauk nation. It will allow members of the nation to connect with their heritage, and will allow other visitors to learn about them from their own perspective in a comprehensive way that they cannot find anywhere else, short of actually visiting the tribe’s reservation in Oklahoma.

Technology will be used to a great degree in this site. We will need to use QuickTime or Flash for all these videos. We will need to use email servers so members of the nation’s government can be contacted. We will need a good deal of server space to store all the information on the database. We will need other technologies that I’m not sure of, but I need to figure out. This is right now the biggest obstacle in my plans, and I need my classmates to help me figure out what kinds of technologies are necessary to get this website off and running.

This website will be divided into 10 sections. These sections will be on the left side of the website, in its own section that will remain constant throughout each page of the site. At the bottom of them will be a search feature. At the Top-left hand corner will be the seal of the tribe itself.

Sections 5 and 6 will be connected to a database on the website that will feature a variety of objects for study. These will include articles on ancient artifacts, historic artifacts, biographies, photos, documents, and modern-day art, ceremonial objects, etc. What will happen is the user will click on one of these two sections, and will be presented with a list of categories. They can click on a category (say in section 6, they will click on the category called “Children’s Objects”), and will be presented with a list of photographs of objects, listed in alphabetical order based on their names (and there will also be an alphabet bar on top of the page, so users can click on the letter “D” for example and immediately go to the objects with names starting with the letter “D”). They can click on an item, and will go to an article which has a photo of the object on one side, and a video player on the other. When they click on the video function, a video will play with a member of the tribe describing the item and what it is used for. Under the video and photo, there will be an article as well, describing the object.

This website will also feature a login system that will require those who use it to create an account for the purposes of using the databases. This is because there might be items in the database that only men can look at, or only women, or elders, or even just members of the tribe. Those who want to see items must provide information about their tribal status or non-status so that when they try to access information in items, they can be granted that access or not. And if they are not granted access, there will be a pop-up window that will tell them exactly why they are not allowed to see it. They will have to understand that this belongs to the tribe, and they set the rules of the site.

Section 1: Home. This will first have a feature of the seal of the tribe on the top left corner, and a video by the Tribal Council highlighting the history of the tribe, an outline of the site, services to members, etc, and will be no more than 2-3 minutes long. There will be a FAQ page as well. This will be after the user chooses to have the site in English or the language of the Sauk/Fox nation.

Section 2: History/Legend. This will be a comprehensive part of the site, featuring an academic history of the tribe, with links to pages of important people, events, treaties, nations, etc. However, this could cause an issue with the tribe because historic analysis could conflict with official religious versions of the nation’s history. I would like to have a separate section in this part, labeled Myth and Legend, which will give links to articles describing all of their myths, from creation to the destruction of the world, as well as various gods (if applicable) and legends about their tribe’s history after creation. Because this site is for the nation, if there are conflicts, I can see the nation possibly deciding to use only the Myth/Legend section of this part. I can see how the myths and legends would be more important to the nation, and since it will be a site highlighting them, they would have the final decision as to what to include or not.

Section 3: Language. This section is straightforward. I want a section of language, with a pronunciation key for every consonant, vowel, and diphthong. Then I want a list of words, like “Thank you” in their vocabulary. It would be rudimentary, and would include links on how to learn the language, for outsiders and members of the nation who might wish to learn.

Section 4: Famous People. There will be a list, with an A-Z scroll on top, and the user will be able to click on it to get to each person by name. In parentheses will be their tribal name, if they have one. Andrew Jackson might not have one. It will include Americans like Andrew Jackson, military leaders like Black Hawk (from their war with America in 1832), and will also include people today who are considered important to the tribe. This can include artists, scholars, athletes, or anyone who is making an impact in today’s society and world. Each article will have a photo and any appropriate maps or items from the database that may be associated with the person in question

Section 5: Artifacts. This will immediately be divided into sections correlating with the database. Some sections might include: A) Home and Hearth (cooking, moccasins, pots, baskets, basket-weaving materials, animal/crop raising tools, making clothes, and other tools used, houses and housing material); B) Religion (dance material, headdresses, pipes, drums, and certain objects may be only visible to tribal members due to religious significance); C) Hunt/War (weapons, hunting implements, war bonnets, war headdresses, war and hunting clothes); D) White/Tribal Relations (guns/gunpowder, treaty documents, correspondence, bibles, bottles, peace medals, etc); E) Art (moccasins, paintings, dolls, rock drawings, carvings, etc); F) Children’s objects; and G) Leisure and communal life (again, drums, dance objects, pipes, etc). You would click on one of these tabs, which would lead to a photo list arranged alphabetically by section, with the A-Z list on the top to help navigate.

Section 6: Modern Life. This would also be connected to the database, and would have the same exact features as the section above, only for contemporary objects (No more than 50 years old).

Section 7: Government. Would detail the current government, who is in it, and how it operates. Would give contact information and biographical information on current members. Would also provide when it meets and give news about the government and how it is working for the tribe.

Section 8: Services. This will highlight government services to members of the nation, including how to get medical services, job training and placement, education (including how to get scholarships for being American Indian), crisis counseling, etc.

Section 9: Events. This will include items like dances, art shows, cultural events, religious services, fairs, etc. Each link will take you to a small page with a flyer describing the event, directions, date, time, and contact information for each event.

Section 10: Contact information. This will provide information on how to contact the webmaster, tribal government, and any other contact information deemed necessary by the nation.

There will also be a search feature, to search by keyword for any article in this website.

I doubt there will be any user-contributed or interactive elements. If there are, they will have to be allowed by the nation itself. I would not believe they would want people who are not members of the nation to write down any comments, interpretations. This is their website, and I would expect them to not allow others to comment on it in forums, articles, and the like. I could be wrong, but I do not see this happening, just as I would not expect them to post historical analysis of the tribe by academics that might conflict with their view of their nation’s history.

Overall I believe this will be an ambitious site. I would expect the nation to have to drop a good $50,000 or more on it, simply because there will be so much to do in the way of database building, technology used, and the like. But I think when it is all finished, they will constantly be able to update it and provide a resource for their members to connect with their heritage and will allow for a constant source of good PR for this nation.

For my website, I have decided to do an interactive website created for the Fox/Sauk American Indian nation, living in Oklahoma. It will be an interactive website both for members of the nation, and for those outside the nation who are interested in this tribe’s history, artifacts, and life in the present-day. When users click into the site, they will be presented with 2 options: either to use the English –language version, or the Sauk/Fox language version of the website.

This website will be divided into 10 sections. These sections will be on the left side of the website, in its own section that will remain constant throughout each page of the site. At the bottom of them will be a search feature. At the Top-left hand corner will be the seal of the tribe itself.

Sections 5 and 6 will be connected to a database on the website that will feature a variety of objects for study. These will include articles on ancient artifacts, historic artifacts, biographies, photos, documents, and modern-day art, ceremonial objects, etc. What will happen is the user will click on one of these two sections, and will be presented with a list of categories. They can click on a category (say in section 6, they will click on the category called “Children’s Objects”), and will be presented with a list of photographs of objects, listed in alphabetical order based on their names (and there will also be an alphabet bar on top of the page, so users can click on the letter “D” for example and immediately go to the objects with names starting with the letter “D”). They can click on an item, and will go to an article which has a photo of the object on one side, and a video player on the other. When they click on the video function, a video will play with a member of the tribe describing the item and what it is used for. Under the video and photo, there will be an article as well, describing the object.

Section 1: Home. This will first have a feature of the seal of the tribe on the top left corner, and a video by the Tribal Council highlighting the history of the tribe, an outline of the site, services to members, etc, and will be no more than 2-3 minutes long. There will be a FAQ page as well. This will be after the user chooses to have the site in English or the language of the Sauk/Fox nation.

Section 2: History/Legend. This will be a comprehensive part of the site, featuring an academic history of the tribe, with links to pages of important people, events, treaties, nations, etc. However, this could cause an issue with the tribe because historic analysis could conflict with official religious versions of the nation’s history. I would like to have a separate section in this part, labeled Myth and Legend, which will give links to articles describing all of their myths, from creation to the destruction of the world, as well as various gods (if applicable) and legends about their tribe’s history after creation. Because this site is for the nation, if there are conflicts, I can see the nation possibly deciding to use only the Myth/Legend section of this part. I can see how the myths and legends would be more important to the nation, and since it will be a site highlighting them, they would have the final decision as to what to include or not.

Section 3: Language. This section is straightforward. I want a section of language, with a pronunciation key for every consonant, vowel, and diphthong. Then I want a list of words, like “Thank you” in their vocabulary. It would be rudimentary, and would include links on how to learn the language, for outsiders and members of the nation who might wish to learn.

Section 4: Famous People. There will be a list, with an A-Z scroll on top, and the user will be able to click on it to get to each person by name. In parentheses will be their tribal name, if they have one. Andrew Jackson might not have one. It will include Americans like Andrew Jackson, military leaders like Black Hawk (from their war with America in 1832), and will also include people today who are considered important to the tribe. This can include artists, scholars, athletes, or anyone who is making an impact in today’s society and world. Each article will have a photo and any appropriate maps or items from the database that may be associated with the person in question

Section 5: Artifacts. This will immediately be divided into sections correlating with the database. Some sections might include: A) Home and Hearth (cooking, moccasins, pots, baskets, basket-weaving materials, animal/crop raising tools, making clothes, and other tools used, houses and housing material); B) Religion (dance material, headdresses, pipes, drums, and certain objects may be only visible to tribal members due to religious significance); C) Hunt/War (weapons, hunting implements, war bonnets, war headdresses, war and hunting clothes); D) White/Tribal Relations (guns/gunpowder, treaty documents, correspondence, bibles, bottles, peace medals, etc); E) Art (moccasins, paintings, dolls, rock drawings, carvings, etc); F) Children’s objects; and G) Leisure and communal life (again, drums, dance objects, pipes, etc). You would click on one of these tabs, which would lead to a photo list arranged alphabetically by section, with the A-Z list on the top to help navigate.

Section 6: Modern Life. This would also be connected to the database, and would have the same exact features as the section above, only for contemporary objects (No more than 50 years old).

Section 7: Government. Would detail the current government, who is in it, and how it operates. Would give contact information and biographical information on current members. Would also provide when it meets and give news about the government and how it is working for the tribe.

Section 8: Services. This will highlight government services to members of the nation, including how to get medical services, job training and placement, education (including how to get scholarships for being American Indian), crisis counseling, etc.

Section 9: Events. This will include items like dances, art shows, cultural events, religious services, fairs, etc. Each link will take you to a small page with a flyer describing the event, directions, date, time, and contact information for each event.

Section 10: Contact information. This will provide information on how to contact the webmaster, tribal government, and any other contact information deemed necessary by the nation.

There will also be a search feature, to search by keyword for any article in this website.

1) Chief Joseph: He was the leader of the Nez Perce tribe who fought a brief war in 1877 with U.S. army forces. Most of the discussion rested on whether or not some facts were right or not, but there was a nice discussion on whether it was appropriate to describe his followers as a band or not. The article’s history is short, only one page of revisions stretching to 2004.

2) Since he was a leader of part of the Nez Perce tribe, I figured I would check their history. Not a short or long article. The discussion centered around a few items, most of them how to effectively spell and pronounce the tribe’s name and various names of leaders. There is a worry that Nez Perce is actually a derogatory name for them. The history of this article is much longer, stretching some 500  entries from just 5 weeks ago to 6/1/2005.

3) The Nez Perce had friendly relations with the Lewis and Clarke Expedition of 1803-6, so I jumped to that article.  Very long and intricate article. Even longer discussion, ranging from sexually transmitted diseases the men got from Indian women, crimes the men were convicted of in court marshals, whether or not Lewis was in love with Clarke, unfairness towards American Indians, and complaints about the article needing work, more treatment towards a variety of things, anger towards those who come onto the article to deface it, and discussions on how that can be controlled. There were some passionate debates in this discussion. It was much more animated than the other two articles. The history was extremely long as well, going all the way to early 2004.

I plan on looking at the discussion tabs more often now when I go onto Wikipedia.

Next blog post will have me fleshing out my project ideas a little more.

The Battle of Adwa – Scholarly Non-Fiction Media in the Digital Realm: This gets a 1. There is hardly any information on the page, and even though the design is nice and orderly, the lines pretty much run together, etc, there is hardly any info. Looks like this website was never finished

The Carolingian Canon Law Project: This gets a 2. I like the idea of the website, but when you search, the texts that come up are in Latin. Yes they are written in Latin, I know, but a translation would be nice. Just because I was raised in Catholic schools for 13 years does not mean I can read Church Latin.

China Beat Blog: I like this one. It gets a 4. I think it was easy to navigate, I can find previous blog entries, and there are plenty of links to click on. Only drawback is it is a very long page. Should probably take posts into the archives sooner.

Digital Harlem: Everyday Life, 1915-1930: I also liked this one, so it gets a 4. The map layover is really cool. I’m a big person n maps, and love how it is used to show exactly where events occurred that are chronicled in the website. I like how I can se crime, social activities, people, and places on this maps with explanations. Very well done.

Eastern Michigan University Digital Textbook: 1. It didn’t load.

Envisaging the West: Thomas Jefferson and the Roots of Lewis and Clark:This geta a 5. I like how you get the choice of the type of website you can see it in. The navigation is very simple. Just 3 main sections. Love the links to primary souces concerning the opening of the West. The interactive maps were excellent.

Euclid Corridor History Project: I gave this one a 4. I liked the design. Looked just like a subway map. Easy to navigate, lots of pictures and short stories of Cleveland’s history. I think students would enjoy this site for a class.

H-German 2.0: I give it a 3. Lots of good information. Too much text. Not enough visual/audio/video.

Historia I Media (Historiaimedia.org): Gets a 1. I can’t speak Polish.

History Engine: This one also gets a 3. I did not like how on the homepage an engine taking so much space did not have interactive buttons I could click on to navigate through the site. I believe this would have made it better.  But I like the idea of having students submit work. It will get some to become interested in the profession early which is always good. Hopefully it is well-maintained so that only good scholarship and writing is featured on the site, in a mannr that is equivalent to a student’s age.

“History of the 20th Century” Project: It get’s a 1 because it won’t let me in the site. Boo for passwords.

The Imaginary 20th Century: This one receives a 4. It’s awfully text-based, but there are lots of links to help scholars receive grants, scholarships, how to be a member, and the other services that this group provides.  I like how there are a great deal of advertised events.

The Indian Woods: At the Crossroads of Three Cultures: A 2. This site sucks. Only text, I don;t like the colors, and there simply is not a lot of information.

Invincible Cities: 4. The art is stunning. I like how his intro is 20 pages long, but you can click through slides of it as long as you wish. I like the layout. Flashy, but not too flashy. Hopefully he expands it like he wants to.

Jewish Digital Narratives: 4. i like how it can connect to social networking sites. That’s different. Lots of visual media. That’s the way it should be.

Le Projet Esternay: 4. Good contrast. The documents have been translated into English from the database. Otherwise it would be a 1 or 2.

Libraries of Early America Project: 4. Lots of good information. They have the libraries of famous early Americans. I don;t know where else I would find it, and it has links to what they had so you can buy it or read it for yourself.  I like the group talk feature also.

Look Back Maps: Another map-related site, like the one from Harlem, but in San Francisco. This one isn’t as comprehensive, so it only gets a 4.

Malaga Island: A Story Best Left Untold: Radio and photo documentary. It’s different. I like the layout, and the contrast, and the colors. Lots of visual media. Sad story. I’d give it a 4.

Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective: I’ll give it a 3. It’s interesting, a nice design. Though it’s too text-based.

OutHistory.org: I like it. I’ll give it a 4 or 5. I’m a bit biased though. But I like how it’s a wiki, which will let members of the gay community add to it. I’d be afraid of people writing homophobic things on the site, and don;t know how well that can be controlled.I might try to write some items on it myself.

PhilaPlace, a Neighborhood History and Culture Project: 1, because it hasn’t launched yet.

The Rethinking Timelines Initiative: Another map site. I like the idea. Good looking site. Needs more examples of these interactive maps. 2-3.

Scholarship and Segregation: Web-Based, Rich Media Access to the “The Negro in American History by John Hope Franklin”: 1, no text.

Shays’ Rebellion and the Making of a Nation: From Revolution to Constitution: 4. I like this part of history. I like the artwork. I like the blue background, and the fact that there are only 7 items to choose from in the main menu. It’s the kind of site I’d like to design.

So how do you prevent this? You can have people monitoring pages like Wikipedia does, but even so, things can and invariably do slip through the cracks. You can kick users off who violate the terms, but in a system that involves a database of thousands upon thousands of items, someone can write something that goes undetected for weeks and months if it is large enough.

I guess you can develop software that calls BS on things, but I don’t know how you’d go about developing and implementing that sort of thing. Maybe with keywords that can be added by the owners and administrators of websites that flag an entry immediately for future eyes to examine.

Anyone else have some ideas?Because this is something that has to be addressed as the History Web grows.

Until then…

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