- From: Charles McCathieNevile <charles@w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2004 05:42:56 -0500 (EST)
- To: Shadi Abou-Zahra <shadi@w3.org>
- Cc: 'Marja-Riitta Koivunen' <marja@annotea.org>, 'Chris Ridpath' <chris.ridpath@utoronto.ca>, 'WAI ER IG List' <w3c-wai-er-ig@w3.org>
On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, Shadi Abou-Zahra wrote: > >hi marja, > >very interesting. i had similar thoughts but on trusting tools rather >than individuals. i thought, maybe the confidence level might be set to >be proportional to a benchmarking value of the tool against a test >suite. of course all that raises questions on how to construct the test >suite, how to benchmark and how to derive a confidence value from there >but that is off the point right now. > >bottom line is that there might be some sort of algorithm to determine >the confidence level but essential values for this calculation would >probably need to come from an external source outside the tool. so who >finally sets the confidence level for an assertion? Hi Shadi, I think this external trust stuff belongs outside EARL itself - it is a much more general use case in RDF (as Nobu demonstrated). I think there's a case to be made for having a confidence property in EARL, but I am not yet sure what makes sense as a range for that property. I certainly think that such a property in EARL should be used (when relevant) by whoever makes the assertion. cheers Chaals
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