Re: Decentralized Fact-checking & Provenance Organization (DeFacto) Community Group launched

Owen,
All,

Hello. I'm also eager to learn more about the new group, its vision, potential synergies with existing groups, and plans with respect to specifications.


Best regards,
Adam

P.S.: On these technical topics of decentralized fact-checking, I would like to share some ideas about uses of custom elements with other JavaScript libraries to enable visual indicators to be provided for each asserted fact or claim such that end-users would be able to both quickly consult these visual indicators and open context menus on them to obtain more information.

These custom elements could utilize something resembling Magnet URIs (or an extension to these for using embedding vectors or derived data).

<verifiable-fact see="magnet:?xv=...">Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.</verifiable-fact>

These custom elements could also be interoperable with blockchain-based technologies.

How might content authors easily enter facts or claims into their documents? With respect to popular content-management systems, the syntax for so doing might resemble that of existing shortcodes like [quote].

[fact]Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.[/fact]

As considered, during content-publishing processes, authors' content-management systems (e.g., Drupal, WordPress) or configurable plugins or extensions for these systems would handle searching for existing paraphrases, adding new facts or claims (if needed), obtaining the data for use in the see attributes, caching these data, and generating markup documents.

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From: Owen Ambur <owen.ambur@verizon.net>
Sent: Wednesday, January 8, 2025 2:40 PM
To: public-council@w3.org <public-council@w3.org>; Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@google.com>
Cc: Raphaël Troncy <raphael.troncy@eurecom.fr>; Adam Sobieski <adamsobieski@hotmail.com>; Mohith Agadi <mohith@fact.technology>; Manoj Agadi <support@fact.technology>; Ajit Nongmaithem <nong.ajit@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Decentralized Fact-checking & Provenance Organization (DeFacto) Community Group launched

I defer to others to answer this question.  However, the initiatives considered by the CredWeb CG are documented in StratML format at https://stratml.us/drybridge/index.htm#CWCG


I look forward to:

a) rendering this group's plan in StratML format as well,
b) using the stratml:Relationship<https://stratml.us/references/oxygen/PerformancePlanOrReport20160216_xsd.htm#Relationship> elements to document and link its performance indicators to other efforts, and
c) documenting any results the group may produce.

Whether I decide to participate in the group will depend upon the degree to which it decides to consider the revelvance of sharing performance metrics in an open, standard, machine-readable format.  In that regard, ChatGPT concludes:

... StratML embodies the principles of trust, transparency, scalability, and provenance—core values that resonate deeply with the group's vision statement. Publishing the DFCP’s strategic and performance documents in StratML format would not only align with but also actively support the realization of its vision and mission.

The details of ChatGPT's logic leading to that conclusion are available here<https://chatgpt.com/c/677ea427-4c1c-800b-9218-5d779e785aee>.

Needless to say, I believe the purposes of all of the W3C's groups would be well served by publishing their performance plans and reports in open, standard, machine-readable format.

Owen Ambur
https://www.linkedin.com/in/owenambur/



On Wednesday, January 8, 2025 at 01:13:52 PM EST, Jeffrey Yasskin <jyasskin@google.com> wrote:


How does this overlap with the Credible Web CG at https://www.w3.org/community/credibility/, which https://github.com/w3c/strategy/issues/483 says is the likely place to investigate provenance questions?

On Wed, Jan 8, 2025 at 8:06 AM <public-council@w3.org<mailto:public-council@w3.org>> wrote:
With your support, the Decentralized Fact-checking & Provenance Organization (DeFacto) Community Group has been launched:
  https://www.w3.org/community/defacto/


This group was originally proposed on 2024-12-14 by Mohith Agadi.
The following people supported its creation:
  Raphaël Troncy
  Adam Sobieski
  Mohith Agadi
  Manoj Agadi
  Ajit Nongmaithem

To join the group, please use:
  https://www.w3.org/community/defacto/join


Please note that supporting a group is different from joining
a group. Supporters must also enroll if they wish to participate.

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The Decentralized Fact-checking &amp; Provenance Working Group (DFCP) is committed to actively researching, developing, building, maintaining, managing, upgrading, and implementing robust amendments for a decentralized fact-checking system and stringent provenance standards for text-based literature and content. We will drive this initiative forward with determination and efficacy.

DFCP strives to empower societies with tools to identify and mitigate/counter misinformation, disinformation, and Fake News at scale.

This group will publish Specifications.
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Thank you,

W3C Community Development Team