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Web Developer Resource Index: PICS

The Platform for Internet Content Selection is a rating system, or metadata specification, developed by the W3C to label the content of Web pages so that parents can independently and intelligently control access to material on the WWW that they consider inappropriate for children.

loadaverageZero has a PICS rating. To see how the RDF metadata is interpreted, visit the ICRA label tester for this site.

Updated: Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 @ 1:53 AM EDT

Data Formats:Metadata:PICS {0}(2)[41]

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• 1.Platform for Internet Content Selection

  The PICS specification enables labels (metadata) to be associated with Internet content. It was originally designed to help parents and teachers control what children access on the Internet. [22]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.w3.org/PICS/
  Author:
  Ralph Swick
  [1]
  Reviewed:Sunday, April 3rd, 2005 @ 4:09 PM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Platform for Internet Content Selection picsw3c
   

• 2.Internet Content Rating Association

  Here Web publishers can automatically PICS label their site(s), test labels, learn how to watermark images and become an ICRA member. Hosted by the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI). [177]

  ★★★★☆
  URI:http://www.icra.org/webmasters/
  Author:
  FOSI Staff
  [1]
  Reviewed:Sunday, April 10th, 2005 @ 2:23 AM EDT
  by:
  Douglas Clifton
  
  Internet Content Rating Association pics
   

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