With the growth of the web, the amount and the nature of information available on the web encompasses many different cultures and lifestyles. One frequent requirement from web users has been to be able to select resources based on content. One approach to this problem is the Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) as described by Resnick and Miller []. The basic idea is to create a platform for the definition of labels attached to resources.
Each label describes a rating of a resource based on a particular rating service. It is important to
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Sept. 11, 1995 - A wide-ranging group of publishers, telecommunications companies, Internet and online service providers and software firms are working together under the auspices of The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to develop an easy-to-use labeling and selection platform, called PICS, that empowers people worldwide to selectively control online content they receive through personal computers.
PICS stands for Platform for Internet Content Selection, and is expected to be available royalty-free in early 1996. PICS is the result
Introduction
With its massive recent growth and popularity, the Internet faces a dilemma that other forms of media have already resolved: censorship. The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) quickly recognized the issues surrounding censorship and in May 1995, its members began working on the Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS). W3C recently issued PICS specifications as a W3C Recommendation.
PICS establishes Internet conventions for label format and distribution methods, while dictating neither a labeling vocabulary nor who should pay
CAMBRIDGE, MA, September 11, 1995 . . A wide-ranging group of publishers, telecommunications companies, Internet and online service providers, and software firms are working together under the auspices of The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to develop an easy-to-use labeling and selection platform, called PICS, that empowers people worldwide to selectively control online content they receive through personal computers. PICS stands for Platform for Internet Content Selection, and is expected to be available royalty-free in early 1996.
PICS is the
(PICS) A standard for meta-data associated with World-Wide Web content, originally designed to help parents and teachers control what children access on the Internet, but also used for code signing and privacy. The PICS platform is one on which other rating services and filtering software have been built.
There may be many popular meanings for PICS with the most popular definition being that of Platform for Internet Content Selection, Plug-in Inventory Control System, Protocol Implementation Conformance Statement
Platform for Internet Content
The Platform for Internet Content Selection is a specification created by W3C that uses metadata to label webpages to help parents and teachers control what children and students can access on the Internet. The W3C RDF project is trying to integrate RDF labels with PICS labels.
Abstract: "PICS, the Platform for Internet Content Selection is a system for associating metadata (PICS 'labels') with Internet content. PICS provides a mechanism whereby independent groups can develop metadata vocabularies without naming conflict. The syntax of a PICS label
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