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Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Self-censorship and XML data.


From: Bob Dodd
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Self-censorship and XML data.
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 08:48:05 -0800 (PST)

--- Peteris Paikens <address@hidden> wrote:
>   There should be places in the XML data to mark the article as
> possibly :
> 'offending' for non-PC views on events, 'sexual' for articles with
> images
> that might be questionable, 'violent' - photos of some massacres
> would be
> relevant, but some would prefer not to see them, and 'assumption' for
> theories that explain things, but are not yet hard science.
> 
>  Those would be set by the original author of the article, and would
> enable
> some people to view the data filtered, to be more like a standard
> encyclopedia, but still leave the articles accessible to those who
> wish so.

I sort of agree but...  the XML tags are more closely related to the
cataloging of the material than the basic indexing of the "core"
content, and consequently I can't see how the original author can
provied values for the tags.

Take pictures. What content is appropriate for any one catalog to show
will depend on the rules governing content fro that catalog. A catalog
like Nupedia, which is basically from a north american/european
christian perspective will be much more relaxed about shown pictures of
women. A similar catalog for an encyclopedia with a strongly islamic
perspective would probably try to ensure pictures of women show them
mostly clothed (e.g. no upper body flesh showing), so if there are two
pictures of a Nobel winning lady author, one in a fetching but scant
evening dress, and another of her at the North Pole, you can be pretty
sure which one will get chosen :-))  Now, if you try to tag the picture
in trh "core" model to handle all possible restrictions, you are gong
to either be incredibly restrictive, or wildly complex.  The only
people who can sensibly tag the material (beyond the basics) are the
catalogers themselves, because it's only them who know what arbitrary
rules to apply.

So, yes, I agree that you need to apply some "content warning" tags,
but in terms of the "core" model, the tagging is going to be a bit on
the basic side: Woman with at least some clothes, Nude Woman...

/Bob Dodd




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