The Family Online Safety Institute: Protecting your online future

You can create as many different labels as you like. They can go in one file or several, cover one site or thousands, cover one page or millions. There is a lot of flexibility.

The system makes a distinction between a “default label” and a “label.” Having set up a default label for your site(s), you can then either create rules that define when the default should be overridden, or just include a link to a specific label that will be used instead of the default for a given page.

The ICRA label generator allows you to define a default label and then set rules that will override this. These rules are based on the URLs of the labelled resources. These might be web pages, images or anything else.

For example, you might define “label 1” as saying “none of the above” in all categories of the ICRA vocabulary. This could be set as the default label for your site(s). You might then define a second label to declare that unmoderated user-generated content is present and a rule that any URL on your site(s) that included the term “messageboard” should be described by label 2, not label 1.

Furthermore – you can define a rule that says any page with a URL that includes either messageboard or chatroom is described by label 2 and so on.

If needs be, you can write much more complicated rules such as “if the URL includes the word ‘nude’ and ends with ‘.jpg’ then use label 3”.

The label generator does its best to make this process easy.

If you prefer you can override a default label by simply including a link to a different one.

For example. Imagine you had used the label generator to define two labels. Label 1 was the default that said “none of the above in all sections of the ICRA vocabulary” and another that said that there was artistic nudity present which you applied to all URLs containing the word “nude.”

The link tag on all your pages would be similar to that shown below:

But, you included a nude image on a page that didn’t have “nude” in the URL In this instance you should just add in a tag that says: