Researchers team to create Credibility Commons

Durst writes: “An article in today’s Chronicle of Higher Ed (sub. required) describes a collaborative effort between researchers at Syracuse U. and U. of Washington that will use different computer technologies to evaluate websites for the usefulness of their content.

Credibility Commons will investigate the creation of a search engine that could bring back sites that librarians typically send their patrons to. The project is funded by a grant from the MacArthur Foundation.”