Category Archives: Blog

An introduction to the Quatro project

The European QUATRO project makes it easy for users to recognise websites that carry trustmarks, seals of approval and content descriptions, collectively called ‘labels’. These labels are detected and authenticated in real time as the user searches and/or browses the Internet, enabling them to make informed choices about the content they wish to see. Quatro […]

ICRA prsentiert neues System zum Jugendschutz im Internet

13.12.00 Die Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) stellte heute auf ihrer Website www.icra.org ihr neues Selbstklassifizierungssystem fr Internet-Inhalte vor. Mit dieser Neuentwicklung ist die unabhngige und gemeinntzige Organisation ICRA einen groen Schritt in ihren Bemhungen fr einen effizienteren Jugendschutz im Internet vorangekommen. Das neue System ist das erfolgreiche Ergebnis einjhriger Beratungen und Entwicklungen, um ein […]

Family Online Safety Institute Associate Members

FOSI’s Associate Membership exists to allow smaller companies and individuals to support FOSI’s twin aims of: protecting children from potentially harmful material; and, protecting free speech on the internet. FOSI is proud to count many companies and individuals as Associate Members. They have all made a commitment to label websites they create and maintain, and […]

ICRA label generator

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Step 4 Create a label for all or most of your site Create additional labels if required Upload your label(s) to the web Link your content to your label(s) First published in 2000, the original ICRA descriptors were determined through a process of international consultation to establish a content […]

The QUATRO approach to Transparency and Usability of Web Authentication

Abstract: The Quatro Project has developed a scalable system for adding machine-processable quality labels/trustmarks to online content. The validity of the labels is derived from direct communication through web services operated by labelling authorities. These typically encode the outcome of human review of online materials. A recent study carried out at Carleton University in Ottawa […]

ICRA logo buttons

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ICRA metadata checker

Sven Latham of Blogwise has created a tool that will successfully locate and parse ICRA labels expressed in RDF according to the two candidate mechanisms discussed at the meeting on 9th July. This is important for several reasons: It proves that the general approach is workable Sven used an off-the-shelf RDF parser (RAP), thus showing […]