QUATRO

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QUATRO and QUATRO Plus projects are interrelated, both having the same purpose and objectives. The only difference is that Quatro Plus project is actually a continuation of the QUATRO project launched in October 2007.

Their purpose is to promote a safer online environment by marking websites with labels according to their content. QUATRO Plus's objectives are:

Prove the benefits and potential of authenticated machine-readable labels to a variety of commercial interests across Europe, including trustmark operators, awards bodies, users, portals, search engines and software manufacturers;
Allow end users to record and share their agreement or disagreement with a label’s description and to create their own labels to share directly with their friends;
Aggregate all available user-generated labels and opinions expressed about existing labels, without attribution, into an open source of data;
Provide simple to use tools for label creation;
Provide a flexible and scalable infrastructure.

The work schedule consists of 10 work packages; the first 3 address the project management, assessment and dissemination activities and include usability testing of software. The subsequent work packages focus upon engaging new Labeling Authorities to participate in QUATRO, making improvements to the existing infrastructure and the addition of core interactive features such as user-authentication, receipt, storage and sharing of labels. A major work package is the application of quality labels to social networking. In addition, the project seeks to encourage and facilitate publication of expert opinion as quality labels, support for user preferences within QUATRO (personalization) and to enable institutions to use QUATRO Plus within their intranets.