ICRA provides a tool that visits your site and tests the labels. If there are problems, the tool attempts to diagnose the situation and provide useful feedback. There are three basic types of response: Green light: Congratulations – as far as the label tester is able to tell, your site is fully labelled with ICRA. […]
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You should not normally create labels for resources pulled from other domains. If your site can be reached by multiple addresses (for example, if your site uses a redirect), then you should give the actual site address in the box asking for your URL homepage, as this is where the RDF label will sit and […]
Within a labels file, the actual ICRA label is encoded in a block similar to this: No nudity, no sex, no violence, no potentially offensive language, no user-generated content, no other potentially harmful activities 1 1 1 1 1 1 This shows a label declaring “None of the above” in all the sections of the […]
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, […]
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 […]