Acknowledgement of Data Sources

If quotes and images are taken from another source they should be acknowledged. This means the names of those sources should be stated. This is ethical practise. Those photos and notes represent another persons's efforts and it is unreasonable not to give credit to those people. Besides being unreasonable it is also illegal. Unfortunately it is difficult tp prosecute and many copyright images mistakenly are said to be free.

 

Users must also be able to validate information retrieved from the Internet. There are a number of ways that a user can do this:

 

Acknowledge all data sources where the core information has been used It may be by means of an included bibliography or list of references used It may be by use of hyperlinks or just giving credit to the source under a quote.

 

 

See Also: Knowledge Management, data mining,Information systems