ICRA’s Associate Membership exists to allow smaller companies and individuals to support ICRA’s twin aims of: protecting children from potentially harmful material; and, protecting free speech on the internet. ICRA 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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ICRA’s Associate Membership exists to allow smaller companies and individuals to support ICRA’s twin aims of: protecting children from potentially harmful material; and, protecting free speech on the internet. ICRA 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 Associate Membership exists to allow smaller companies and individuals to support ICRA’s twin aims of: protecting children from potentially harmful material; and, protecting free speech on the internet. ICRA 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 […]
The meeting was well attended by members of the LWG and other interested parties, namely: Apologies received from: Statement of intent The meeting agreed to work to define “A standard metadata framework to support child protection, selection and display of content across web technologies, business to business channels, peer to peer and content production.” Requirements […]
On 16th September 2004, the ICRA board was presented with the results of work done by the Labelling Working Group and asked to consider a number of recommendations and proposals. Whilst detailed work continues, the broad outline for a new labelling system is now clear. ICRA will move from PICS to RDF/XMLRDF as its core […]
All the objectives set out for the Labelling Working Group have either been met already or can be met during January 2005. A reminder of those objectives: To analyse the challenges faced by large, complex sites in labelling their content. Completed. LWG members have provided invaluable feedback for what is and isn’t practical and have […]
I have been told of a W3C Note written by Mark Birbeck of x-port.net, that discusses linkage between XHTML and RDF. Published on 14 February 2004, it seems to address our issues very well. The ideas it proposes come from current work on XHTML 2.0 which is the current focus of work for the primary […]
Updated 23 February 2005 As part of the Quatro1 project, and following on from the work of ICRA’s Labelling Working Group2, the first technical draft of the proposed new labelling system has been published3. The new system, based on RDF4, offers many advantages over PICS5 labels currently used by ICRA and others. Labels can be […]
The technical and policy difficulties of adding PICS labels to websites is discussed in detail in the paper delivered to the workshop on content labelling at WWW2004 (see [WWW]). The WWW workshop itself and subsequent discussions have been instructive in laying the groundwork for possible approaches. One thing is plain: a solution based on the […]
At the initial meeting of the working group on 9th June, the following points were made: De-referencing the labels and pointing to a central location would work well in many cases and, on first sight, seemed to be welcomed by large content providers Work to classify content into a limited set of categories has already […]