Roger Montti writes that Google has released version 0.2 of the Open Knowledge Format, incorporating five trust signals to facilitate data verification for consumers. These updates cover provenance, generation and verification status, freshness via expiration dates, lifecycle stages, and computational attestation to address questions regarding a concept's origin, accuracy, and timeliness. By providing raw metadata rather than subjective credibility scores, Google enables users or agents to dynamically evaluate information based on objective signals such as authorship and usage counts.
- Attested Computation is a new type used to confirm that values are calculated using sanctioned methods instead of improvised logic.
- The "sources" field provides objective data points like author and last modified date rather than an inherent score.
- Verification can be performed by humans or machine agents, allowing users to filter content based on verification level.
- Attested Computation is a new type used to confirm that values are calculated using sanctioned methods instead of improvised logic.
- The "sources" field provides objective data points like author and last modified date rather than an inherent score.
- Verification can be performed by humans or machine agents, allowing users to filter content based on verification level.
