The SELECT project is funded by the EU. You can find out more about the project here.

The SELECT system is intended to help users of the Internet to find high quality, relevant information quickly and easily. It is based upon the the idea that users can help each other by giving, and making public, their ratings of documents that they have read.

The SELECT system is not a censorship tool -- it is purely aimed at reducing information overload.

Getting the best out of the SELECT system requires that users be prepared to invest a little effort.

SELECT users' privacy will not be affected -- any required user identification will be kept securely.

Amongst the functions that the SELECT system might provide users are:

1. Ratings provision -- allowing the user to rate Web pages or News Group postings for the benefit of themselves and others.
2. Individual filtering using user profiles -- informing a user about Web pages or News Group postings that match her individual profile i.e., similar to ones that she has already seen and liked.
3. Social filtering of Web pages or News Group postings -- using ratings provided by other, similar users to filter out documents that fall below the user's quality threshold.