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 […]
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1 October 2008 October’s InSight – FOSI’s monthly Newsletter – now online The October issue of InSight now available, with news of FOSI’s recent Roundtable event at Googleplex, FOSI awards, and more. 2 October 2008 Jugendschutz in der Praxis Once again, FOSI has been asked to be a guest speaker at Austria’s Internet Service Providers […]
Chief Executive Officer Family Online Safety Institute Stephen Balkam is the founding CEO of the Family Online Safety Institute, an international organization whose aim is to identify and promote best practice, tools and methods in the field of online safety. The Institute’s work includes the development of the ICRA family of products and services, online […]
This page shows the original ICRA vocabulary, first published in December 2000, along with the definitions and guidance notes. The vocabulary is available in a machine-readable format as a PICS1 .rat file. PICS labels generated using this vocabulary are still supported in ICRAplus however any new usage of the ICRA system should be built on […]
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’s descriptive vocabulary allows content providers to label their sites in as objective a way as possible. At present this is done using PICS labels that are easy to use in simple websites but that pose significant problems for larger web properties. The limitations of the PICS system presents both policy and technical problems for […]
This document presents a flow chart describing a possible processing route for labels. The word “label” is used to mean the RDF class contentLabel as defined in the draft label ontology. For processing purposes, labels fall into two categories: Generic, meaning labels that include application rules; Specific, meaning those without any application rules. A key […]
Final report available Introduction ICRA recognises that whilst many content providers are supportive of self-labelling, a variety of logistical and technological hurdles can sometimes prevent them from doing so. In response, ICRA has established a new working group to find improved methods for labelling content. The labelling working group is being run in parallel with […]
The Quatro project has applied semantic web technologies to trustmark schemes and quality labels. Drawing on past and original research, the project has defined a vocabulary that can be used by any trustmark scheme (TMS) and a technical platform to deliver the trustmarks in a format that can be processed by semantic web agents. Trustmark […]
The Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA) is an international, non-profit organization of internet leaders working to develop a safer internet. ICRA has long believed that self-regulation leads to the best balance between the free flow of digital content and protecting children from potentially harmful material. The centrepiece of the organization is the descriptive vocabulary, often […]