Designing a System for an Online Article Submission Site to Pick Out the Experts
Is it possible to design a software system that can pick out the experts in a subject matter by the way that they write? Can we build a searching artificially intelligent program that will weed out the best experts or authorities from half a million or more articles online? Perhaps it is possible to do this. Of course we must caution such designers to be weary of complexity and understand the reality.
Thus I guess the real comment is KISS - Keep it simple stupid and if something of this nature is built on a semantic searching level to pick out the most best expert authors, it must be a simple concept or philosophy guiding that process. We must also understand that in the future, as search engines change or as the new way of finding information shifts, so too will be the availability of information and the ease at which the most relevant information is found by those who seek it.
Since information is already on the online article submission sites and much good information, hopefully the systems looking for information such as the major search engines shall find it, this is best for all concerned. I believe that others who have been projecting future needs in this regard and point to such a guiding light in the direction moving forward point to a key element in such a discussion, because if you are set up in advance to ride the next consecutive set of waves, we will all surf into the future in style.
The authors who are driven primarily by money to write articles and post them online may have a greater incentive to write well structured and grammatically correct articles, but there will be various strategies they choose to deploy with regards to information flow. If a consultant gives away all his industry secrets, he may not be needed.
One has to ask what the web is for. If it is for the distribution of information to humans, then it levels the playing field and in doing so will cause conflict for those who have hijacked the information holding it out to the highest bidder. In the future he who controls the information is indeed the man with the gold who will indeed be the one making the rules in the new paradigm and so we must be thinking here.
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