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vr.tr.review · INF.MED

Let an agent explain reviews and their kinds, relay standards for critical, academic, user and governmental reviews from journalism, scholarship and consumer sources, describe reliability issues such as fake reviews with attribution, and distinguish reviews from ratings, summaries, audits and peer review.

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Research draft, second pass

A second pass drafted this model: the structure a model of this thing needs, and what is known about it in the world. The line under this one says how the second half was obtained - researched against sources, or recalled without web access, in which case nothing here was read anywhere and every claim is a lead to verify. Unreviewed either way.

written by Claude from model knowledge without web access - no source was read, every claim is a lead to verify

Researched by: Claude

Purpose and description

Let an agent explain reviews and their kinds, relay standards for critical, academic, user and governmental reviews from journalism, scholarship and consumer sources, describe reliability issues such as fake reviews with attribution, and distinguish reviews from ratings, summaries, audits and peer review.

An evaluation of a work, product, service, performance or body of research, written or recorded for others, in forms from critical reviews in journalism and academia through user reviews on platforms, governmental reviews of policy and programmes, reproducibility reports that assess whether research findings can be replicated, to video formats such as haul videos and platform scores such as the Listen Score for podcasts; reviews inform choices and are shaped by expertise, incentives and platform design.

What it is for: Evaluating works and informing others.

It can be explain kinds; relay standards; describe reliability issues; distinguish related evaluations.

Distinguishing features

Evaluative

For an audience

Expert and lay forms

Platform influence

What it looks like

Not a visible object; a written, spoken or video evaluation.

Physical character

fake review share, estimates: up to about 30 percent - on some platforms, studies

review formats: text, audio, video, scores list

How it is recognised

Evaluation of a work or product for others

Critical reviews, user reviews, governmental reviews, reproducibility reports, haul videos, Listen Score

A rating is a score alone; a summary describes; an audit verifies; peer review is pre-publication assessment

Related models

is a kind of - in registry terms

evaluation

is a kind of - in registry terms

intellectual work

is contrasted with - a pre-publication assessment

peer review

is exemplified by - a classic form

book review

In practice

Families and kinds

critical reviews of books, films, music and performances

academic book reviews and reproducibility reports

user and consumer reviews on platforms

governmental and policy reviews

video review formats such as haul videos

aggregated scores such as the Listen Score

Standards and regulation

Consumer protection rules on fake and paid reviews

Advertising disclosure rules for sponsored reviews

Journalistic and academic review conventions

Failure modes and hazards

Fake and incentivised reviews

Conflicts of interest

Registry aliases mixing genres and platform metrics

Also called

Reproducibility Reporthaul videouser reviewglobal user reviewgovernmental reviewListen Scorepodcast reviewGame Informer's Review SystemIGN Review Scalemusic reviewvideo game console reviewapplication reviewPFU caseretrospectivedice throwcustomer reviewDefence Reviewethical reviewvideo game reviewfilm reviewproduct testingcritic reviewexhibition reviewtelevision series reviewtheatre reviewCD-ROM reviewFu Pandiscrimination testingtest articlepackage testingPhysical test

Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Also registered as vr.tr.review-act

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand What a review is.

Definition.

Definition

Definition.

Definition

Definition.

  1. What is a review, and how does it differ from a rating, summary, audit and peer review? definition
  2. Is the question about reviews in general, a kind or a specific platform? boundary

Kinds

Kinds.

Kinds

Kinds.

  1. What are critical, user, governmental and reproducibility reviews, haul videos and the Listen Score? definition
  2. Which entry fits the specific kind? action
Write Writing reviews.

Practice.

Craft

Craft.

Craft

Craft.

  1. How are fair and useful reviews written in journalism, academia and consumer contexts? action
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Ethics

Ethics.

Ethics

Ethics.

  1. What ethical rules govern disclosure, conflicts and sponsored reviews? provenance
  2. Which sources are cited? provenance
Platforms Platforms and reliability.

Attribution.

Reliability

Reliability.

Reliability

Reliability.

  1. How prevalent are fake reviews, and how do platforms and regulators respond, with findings attributed? provenance
  2. Is the presentation attributed? boundary

Metrics

Scores and aggregation.

Metrics

Metrics.

  1. How do aggregated scores and metrics such as the Listen Score work? provenance
  2. Which entry fits review aggregator? action
Context Research and history.

Context.

Research

Reproducibility reports.

Research

Research.

  1. What are reproducibility reports, and how do they relate to the replication crisis? provenance
  2. Which entry fits replication crisis? action

History

History.

History

History.

  1. How did reviewing develop from 18th-century periodicals to online platforms? provenance
  2. Which entry fits the history of criticism? action

What the second pass must settle

  • Should user review, reproducibility report and governmental review be separate primary entries?
  • How should journalism and scholarship sources be linked?
  • The registry entry has merged aliases naming formats and a platform metric; should they be split off?