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Yes. While the motivation for PICS was concern over children accessing inappropriate materials, it is a general "meta-data" system, meaning that labels can provide any kind of descriptive information about Internet materials. For example, a labeling vocabulary could indicate the literary quality of an item rather than its appropriateness for children. Most immediately, PICS labels could help in finding particularly desirable materials (see, for example, NetShepherd's label-informed Alta Vista search), and this is the main motivation for the ongoing work

PICS is a pair of Protocols, allowing labels to be applied to WWW content. These Protocols empower any individual or organization to design and distribute labels reflecting their views about the content. PICS was pioneered by W3C as a practical alternative to global governmental censorship of the Internet. In addition, the same technology facilitates searching the WWW and provides a foundation for establishing trust in information on the WWW. PICS labels are rather limited in their expressiveness. A new version of PICS will be based on RDF, facilitating

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

PICS is a W3C specification for describing the content of resources with a metadata label. PICS was originally designed as a way for parents and teachers to gain control over the Web sites and pages that children could access on the Internet. The PICS standards facilitate the following: * Self-rating Content providers voluntarily label the content they create and distribute. * Third-party rating Independent labeling services associate labels with content created by others. These services may devise their own labeling, and multiple services

Does it matter whether labels are applied to IP addresses or to URLs? An IP address identifies the location of a computer on the Internet. A URL identifies the location of a document. To simplify a little, a URL has the form http://<domain-name>/<filename>. A web browser first resolves (translates) the domain-name into an IP address. It then contacts the computer at that address and asks it to send the particular filename. Thus, a label that applies to an IP address is a very broad label: it applies to every document that can be retrieved

PICS is a cross-industry working group whose goal is to facilitate the development of technologies to give users of interactive media, such as the Internet, control over the kinds of material to which they and their children have access. PICS members believe that individuals, groups and businesses should have easy access to the widest possible range of content selection products, and a diversity of voluntary rating systems. In order to advance its goals, PICS will devise a set of standards that facilitate the following: Self-rating: enable

Technology Inventory [broken link as of July 2005]. Lorrie Cranor and Paul Resnick. This inventory was first distributed at the December 1997 Internet On-line summit: Focus on Children. The on-line version was updated until the summer of 1999. It also lists some products and services that are not PICS-compatible. The following resource lists are being maintained by members of the PICS developers' community. Contact the maintainer of each individual list with additional links. The maintainers have all agreed to be fast and fair in maintaining these

The rules interpreting PICS labels are entirely local to clients. A client receives a PICS label and decides the effect that this particular label should have, based on local rules. Although these rules can be specified in a product-specific way, W3C has defined a language for them. This language is PICSRules []. PICSRules has the following advantages over proprietary approaches: * Sharing and installation of profiles The creation of profiles (a certain set of rules) can be complicated, and by using a common language, a profile can be created and

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

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, but it also facilitates other uses for labels, including code signing and privacy. The PICS platform is one on which other rating services and filtering software have been built. The PICS system has two types of components: rating systems and rating labels. A rating system defines the criteria for how content is rated. The rating label is the actual rating