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- Introduction
- Some definitions
- Paratext
- Trust
- What this has to do with us
- Trust: the publisher problem
- Trust: the librarian problem
- Synecdoche
- The synecdoche problem
- Librarians and publishers face similar issues
- Pubrarians and Liblishers
- Scholarly communication
- Internet trust problem
- Internet trust anti-pattern
- Email, IRC, USENET, etc.
- Trust: the internet user problem
- Comparing trust models
- Local vs. Global trust
- Horizontal vs. Vertical trust
- Internet trust / Scholarly trust
- The researcher problem
- Increasing content in less time
- Researcher as an author vs. a reader
- Signal-to-noise ratio increase
- How we dealt with trust on the internet
- Gaming the system
- Email in the internet trust anti-pattern
- Twitter/SMS in the internet trust anti-pattern
- Grass roots efforts vs. astroturfing
- Signal-to-noise ratio likely to get even worse
- What we can learn from the past
- Heuristic
- Brand (1)
- Brand (2)
- Provenance infrastructure
- Provenance infrastructure assimilated
- Let's play a game
- Digital content
- Paucity of heuristics
- Understanding and decoding URLs
- Links
- What we can we do
- We want to know (the rise of meta-brands)
- Meta-brands
- HON code
- Online blogging platforms-web metabrand
- Peer reviewed metabrand
- Web science
- A call for future action
- The early modern internet
- Print and internet timelines
- Incunabula publications
- Hybrid publications persist on the internet
- Thank you
Topics Covered
- What's this got to do with us?
- The internet trust problem
- Internet vs. scholarly trust
- The researcher problem
- Successfully dealing with trust on the internet
- Gaming the system
- What can we learn from the past?
- The rise of meta-brands
- The early modern internet
Talk Citation
Bilder, G.W. (2012, April 4). What color is your paratext? trust metrics [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved April 15, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.69645/BEYU7220.Export Citation (RIS)
Publication History
- Published on April 4, 2012
Financial Disclosures
- Mr. Geoffrey W. Bilder has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.
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