ICRA

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ICRA (Internet Content Rating Association) is a non-profit international organization with headquarters in USA and Great Britain. Its mission is to help users find web pages that contain the content they want to find, to have confidence in what they find and sort what they don't want for themselves and their children. ICRA also acts as a forum where both the method and technical infrastructure are defined to help shape how the content distribution channels from World Wide Web works.

ICRA has created a content description system that allows webmasters and creators of digital content to label their content in categories like nudity, sex, vulgar language, violence, other unwanted materials and chat. There are context variables like art, medicine and news - as an example a piece of content or a site may be described as representing nudes but they are in an artistic content. A key point is that ICRA does not classify Internet content nor make judgments about the value of sites. Content suppliers have to label their content so parents and other adults to be able to make a decision about content classification as being adequate or inadequate for them and their children.

Labeling is realized by filling a web questionnaire. Content creators check which of the elements from the questionnaire are present or absent in their site and it's automatically generated a small file ind RDF format and lined to the content.

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