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As collaborative repositories grow in popularity and use, issues concerning the quality and trustworthiness of information grow. Some current popular repositories contain contributions from a wide variety of users, many of which will be unknown to a potential end user. Additionally the content may change rapidly and information that was previously contributed by a known user may be updated by an unknown user. End users are now faced with more challenges as they evaluate how much they may want to rely on information that ...

As collaborative repositories grow in popularity and use, issues concerning the quality and trustworthiness of information grow. Some current popular repositories contain contributions from a wide variety of users, many of which will be unknown to a potential end user. Additionally the content may change rapidly and information that was previously contributed by a known user may be updated by an unknown user. End users are now faced with more challenges as they evaluate how much they may want to rely on information that ...

QUATRO is an on-going EC-funded project which aims to provide a common vocabulary and machine readable schema for quality labeling of Web content, as well as ways to automatically show the contents of the label(s) found in a Web resource, and functionalities for checking the validity of these labels. The paper presents the QUATRO processes for label validation and user notification, and outlines the architecture of QUATRO system.

As collaborative repositories grow in popularity and use, issues concerning the quality and trustworthiness of information grow. Some current popular repositories contain contributions from a wide variety of users, many of which will be unknown to a potential end user. Additionally the content may change rapidly and information that was previously contributed by a known user may be updated by an unknown user. End users are now faced with more challenges as they evaluate how much they may want to rely on information that ...

There has been considerable debate about the apparent irrationality of end users in choosing with whom to share information, with much of the discourse crystallized in research on phishing. Designs for security technology in general, anti-spam technology, and anti-phishing technology has been targeted on specific problems with distinct methods of mitigation. In contrasts, studies of human risk behaviors argue that such specific targets for specific problems are unlikely to provide a significant increase in user trust of the internet, as humans lump and generalize. We initially theorized that communications to users need to be less specific to technical failures and more deeply embedded in social or moral terms. Our experiments indicate that users respond more strongly to a privacy policy failure than an arguably more risky technical failure. From this and previous work we conclude that design for security and privacy needs to be more expansive in that there should be more bundling o...