Credible Web, Real-time Fact Checking, and Document Services

Credible Web Community Group,

Hello. I am new to the group. I would like to introduce myself and to share some information about a related project pertaining to real-time fact-checking.

I am presently exploring the group’s website and repositories:
https://credweb.org/
https://github.com/w3c/credweb/
https://github.com/w3c/cred-claims

I would like to share with the group some related and evolving documents and ideas about document services:
https://www.w3.org/community/argumentation/wiki/Document_Services
https://github.com/WICG/proposals/issues/19

“Document services are a generalization over services for documents such as: spelling checking, grammar checking, proofreading, fact checking, and mathematical proof and argumentation checking. Document services are relevant to both document authoring and document reviewing scenarios. Imagine being able to check, in real-time, if a document has any informational, warning, or error messages with respect to its factuality or any steps of its reasoning. Tools for authoring and reviewing documents, in these regards, would be useful across sectors, across industry, academia, military, and government, with specific applicability to journalism, encyclopedias, digital textbooks, and science.”

Here is a markup example:


<html>

  <head>

    <base href="https://www.example.org/document.xhtml" />

    <meta name="fact-checking-selector" content="[role~='fact']" />

    <link rel="fact-checking-service-provider" href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Special:FactCheck" />

  </head>

  <body>

    <span role="fact">HTML and MathML content</span>

    <div  role="fact">HTML and MathML content</div>

  </body>

</html>

The markup example shows how a document author might utilize document metadata to indicate how to select content which is intended to be facts or claims in a document while also providing one or more recommended services for fact-checking. As envisioned, end-users could also select and configure their own remote or client-local services. For each variety of document service, multiple service providers could be utilized simultaneously.

A goal is that end-users could utilize their Web browsers to review documents in a number of ways utilizing multiple document service providers.

Real-time fact-checking is a scenario which is also relevant to the proposed Document Services Community Group. If these ideas are interesting to you, please feel free to support the creation of the new group and to join the group: https://www.w3.org/community/groups/proposed/#services .

Thank you. I look forward to learning more about the Credible Web Community Group, participating, and to discussing these ideas with you. Feedback, comments, questions, ideas, and suggestions are welcomed.


Best regards,
Adam Sobieski

Received on Wednesday, 27 January 2021 21:21:11 UTC