Rating, trust and reputation

Draft

This should become an article dealing with:

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reputation_system
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_metric
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collaborative_filtering

i.e. issues related to systems that allow fair ratings of something, e.g. items in learning object repository.

Links

• Christopher Allen & Shannon Appelcline (2007). Collective Choice: Experimenting with Ratings. Life with Alacrity Blog, [HTML]
• Shannon Appelcline (2006). Collective Choice: More Thoughts About Ratings, Blog entry, HTML
• Jennifer Golbeck, James Hendler (2004). Accuracy of Metrics for Inferring Trust and Reputation in

Semantic Web-based Social Networks, PDF