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Search results for "credible information on the Internet" ...
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Evaluation criteria for a web site
Easy access to the information on the Internet makes it easy to forget that the information itself may not be credible. There is no quality control for the World Wide Web. Anyone can put up a web site claiming all sorts of things. Anne Mintz offers this evaluation criteria for reporters to discern more easily whether a web site is reputable or not.
Tags: web site; internet; credible information on the Internet; web standards; accuracy; facts
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Evaluating Net Information
This tipsheet is a chapter from the Third Edition of The Online Journalist; Using the Internet and Other Electronic Resources. In particular, it discusses the MIDIS system to weigh the integrity of data found on the Internet.
Tags: production; site ownership; spelling errors; domain name; WHOIS database; trust meter; credibility; protocols: WAIS; Telnet; Gopher; FTP servers
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M.I.D.I.S.: Miller Internet Data Integrity Scale
This tipsheet talks about how to think about information available on the Internet. It discusses six groups of sites; Government Data, State, Federal, University Studies, Special Interest Groups and Other. Each has a different level of credibility and different types of uses.
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