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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

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

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

(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

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