<rating> news

Netscape's RSS 0.91 had a <rating> element designed for marking
channels as "child-safe" (or not, i.e. containing sexually explicit or
violent material). The content of the element was given as PICS data
[2]. That was in 1999.

In 2005, RSS 2.0 has a channel-level <rating> element specified as
"The PICS rating for the channel.", RSS 1.0 supports <rating> through
the RSS091 module.

There's also now Yahoo! Media RSS <media:adult> and <itunes:explicit>

There has also been some development from the rating community,
notably by the Internet Content Rating Association who were providing
the leading PICS label generator. The following is from an email from
Phil Archer [email protected] to [email protected] :

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Today, ICRA has switched from off its PICS label generator and is now
encouraging content providers to add RDF descriptions instead. From a SWIG
point of view I hope this means that there will be more data on the web for
semantic web applications to work with. ICRA's focus is child protection but
the platform has the potential to be used for a lot more. For example, we're
working with trust mark schemes to make their seals of approval
machine-processable. The platform is also a candidate technology for the
Mobile OK trustmark being developed by the Mobile Web Initiative.

Some relevant URLs:

RDF Content Labels (core platform)
http://www.w3.org/2004/12/q/doc/content-labels-schema.htm

ICRA Label generator http://www.icra.org/label/

ICRA system specification: http://www.icra.org/systemspecification/

Phil Archer
Chief Technical Officer
Internet Content Rating Association
Label your site today at http://www.icra.org
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See also: RDF Content Labels: Use Cases (includes an RSS example)
http://www.w3.org/2004/12/q/doc/rdf-contentlabels.html

Cheers,
Danny.

[1] http://my.netscape.com/publish/formats/rss-spec-0.91.html#rating
[2] http://www.w3.org/PICS/


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