The way credibility works

In the article, “Criteria to Evaluate the Credibility of WWW Resources” it talks about many different websites and the ways that those websites are categorized, com, edu or gov to name a few. It also tells how to check the credibility of these sights; protecting ourselves from information that is not factual.

I learned some interesting facts from this article, I was not aware of the way in which they use symbols to separate website information, also I did not know that news and journalistic sites had an ISSN to categorize them and I was not aware that many scholarly articles are still only in a hard copy.

The neat thing about the way that they categorize websites is that they use “/” to separate the information you are going into. It is similar to the way we learn many subject, going from broad to very focused. It gives a beginning to the website like “tumblr” and as it goes into each space it gets more narrowed down until it gets to a lengthy url of information.

The fact that scholarly articles are still in hard copy mainly makes me realize that the library is very important, not everything can be found on the internet. It seems that the very factual and timeless things are kept in hard copy, not being able to be tampered with as easily as an article online.

News and Journals have a categorical system all of their own called the International Standard Serial Number. I never realized that books and articles are structured with serial numbers. It was neat to learn that all things are organized and someone who probably cared a lot about them did that organizing.