Who uses Content Labels today?

There are a number of organisations working together to help standardise the way we label content.

segala logoSegala: Global provider of independent compliance certification based on Web and mobile standards compliance. Specialist in Web accessibility and mobileOK. Creating new codes of conduct through contentlabel.org. Segala is also licensed to provide Segala-Verified ICRA labels.

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ICRA: The Web’s leading labelling organisation for child protection

Internet Quality Agency LogoIQUA: the Internet Quality Agency: A quality seal covering legality, honour, responsibility, confidentiality, protection of human dignity, protection of minors, protection of public order, protection of private lives.

web medica acreditada logoWMA: Web Mèdica Acreditada: certification for the accuracy and validity of heal-related information online.

Content Labels recently completed the W3C’s first incubator activity. It is moving onto aw3c logo full recommendation track to become an official standard like HTML and SMIL and will be proposed as a replacement of PICS. PICS is the current (outdated) system used by Internet Explorer for filtering content today.

A few more use cases for enabling more trust in search results

Users may also wish to know

  • Which sites claim to be accessible using the Segala Trustmark
  • Which sites claim to be mobile friendly using the W3C Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) Trustmark (mobileOK)
  • Creative Commons licence already has metadata behind the visual badge. However, using a Content Label would mean users could search specifically for sitse that have this type of licence.
  • Which mainstream bloggers follow a code of conduct to differentiate themselves from ad-hoc blogs. How do you know that John the blogger isn’t really Mark who works for John’s competitor…
  • http://contentlabel.org is a non-commercial independent Web site to encourage industry to create, debate and formalise new codes of conduct for the Web.
 
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