ICRA labels are written using the Resource Description Framework (RDF). This is the key technology behind the “Semantic Web.” [1] “The Semantic Web is an extension of the current web in which information is given well-defined meaning, better enabling computers and people to work in cooperation.” Tim Berners-Lee, James Hendler, Ora Lassila, The Semantic Web, […]
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For the filter (and the tester) to be able to find the label, you need to link your site content to the label. The last stage in the label generator process gave you a link tag, which will look something like (but not exactly the same as) this: This Link tag must go in the […]
If you have been through the labelling process before you can skip straight to the label generator. In order to label a website you need to do two things: Create one or more labels in a special file and upload it to your website. Link your content to that file. We’ll guide you through every […]
Yes. There is no standard location in which a filter will look for labels; you have to tell the filter (or other client) where the labels are. If the user lands on a page that does not link to your labels, the filter won’t “auto-magically” find the labels.rdf file. However, the tag: is short is […]
ICRA labels are held in a special file, usually called labels.rdf. This file is effectively broken down into sections to provide filters and other clients with the information they need. The best way to explain this is by examining the (fictitious) example below. 1 2 http://www.icra.org/rdfs/vocabularyv03# 3 example.org example.com 4 photography guestbook messages 5 Label […]
You can label as many sites as you wish with a single labels file if you: include the domain names of the sites to be labelled in the labels file include links from all your sites to the single labels file. The labels file includes a section like this: example.org … This is written on […]
Some servers, particularly Microsoft servers, will allow you to upload the labels.rdf file but will not “serve it back to you” even if you put its correct URL in your browser. You might get a not found message (the famous “Error 404”) or a message saying “You are not authorized to access this site” which […]
ICRA (formerly the Internet Content Rating Association) is part of the Family Online Safety Institute, an international, non-profit organization of internet leaders working to develop a safer internet. FOSI’s mission is to develop, implement and manage an internationally acceptable voluntary self-rating system which provides internet users world wide with the choice to limit access to […]
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), […]
If you are using PHP, you will need to modify the Link tag we sent you. Please follow the example of the script below. (It is quite straightforward: just an echo” statement and a backslash in front of ” and then a final \n”;) Link Tag echo “\n”; PICS Tag (to support legacy systems) echo […]