roundtable: Re: New way to label information on the Internet

roundtable: Re: New way to label information on the Internet

Re: New way to label information on the Internet

Shabbir J. Safdar (mgjones@apt.org)
Thu, 21 Dec 1995 19:59:25 -0500 (EST) 

Date: Thu, 21 Dec 1995 19:59:25 -0500 (EST)
From: <mgjones@apt.org>
Subject: Re: New way to label information on the Internet
To: roundtable@cni.org
In-Reply-To: <9512202258.AA03142@a.cni.org>
Message-Id: <Pine.3.89.9512211907.C19863-0100000@server.idi.net>


I think this is potentially a vitally critical issue. I'm not sure we 
should emulate library indexing systms which I do not believe are 
necessarily the way the average consumr thinks about information. I can 
certainly appreciate the fears of a more editorial way of describing 
content but perhpas there is a middle ground. Lets explore this in depth. 
We need creative approaches. Lets get consuemrs themselves involved. Jean 
Levin has done some fine work in thsi area. Lets tap the expertise that 
is out there.

Mary Gardiner Jones
Alliance for Public Technology (APT)	|   Internet:	mgjones@apt.org


On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, Shelly Warwick wrote:
> 
> Confused.  Is this labeling similiar to Dewey or LC subject headings
> (what the doc is about) used in libraries, or labels about type and 
> level of content, such as those used to rate movies or on toys.  While
> I would heartily endorse the former I have some questions about the
> appropriateness and free speech implications of the latter.
> 
> Under such a scheme I would one rate excerpts from the New York TImes
> dealing with the violence and rape in Bosnia?
> 
> Shelly Warwick
> wasbb@cunyvm.cuny.edu

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