This page describes some of our recent reports and publications, and writings by other researchers working on issues of credibility.

CredibilityCommons’ Reports

• Annual Report for The MacArthur Foundation (2006-2007). Annual Report summarizing the Credibility Commons’ progress in the development of tools and technology, research, collaboration, and dissemination.

• Credibility Brief: NewsTrust (2006, July 24). Report about the NewsTrust news service, by Shaun Kane.

• Credibility Brief: Goodmail (2006, June 6). Report about Goodmail’s CertifiedEmail service, and the community response over fears of an “email tax”. By Shaun Kane.

• Internet Credibility and the User Symposium. The Internet Credibility and the User Symposium was held April 11-13, 2005 in Seattle WA. The symposium was a project of the American Library Association Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) and the Information School of the University of Washington, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. From this symposium, a collection of commissioned papers discussing skills, educational strategies and technologies related to Internet credibility can be found in the CredibilityCommons Repository.

Writings & Publications by Other Researchers

• Rubin, V. L., & Liddy, E.D. (2006). Assessing Credibility of Weblogs. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium: Computational Approaches to Analyzing Weblogs (CAAW), 27-29 March, 2006, Stanford University.

• Conceptualization of credibility terms by Rieh, S. Y (personal communication, August, 24, 2007) This document conceptualizes credibility and related terms and is a working draft by Rieh, Soo Young, Assistant Professor at the Information School, University of Michigan.

Additional reports will be announced on the Credibility Commons website as they are released.