In our latest Talking with Talis podcast, I speak with Phil Archer, Chief Technical Officer at the Internet Content Rating Association, ICRA. We discuss some of the background to ICRA, looking at past, present and future involvement in the whole arena of content labelling, content ratings and trust marks. As well as describing the use of technology in protecting vulnerable users and viewers, Phil outlines some of the many ways in which we are able to assist all users in finding the types of content most relevant to their circumstances.

We conclude our conversation by looking at some of the ways in which content labels are demonstrating the broader potential of the Semantic Web.

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During the conversation, we refer to the following resources;

• 4 on Demand TV download service from Channel 4
• Google Co-op Annotations
• Bleak House
• British Board of Film Classification (BBFC)
• contentlabel.org
• Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB)
• European Commission press release, “Mobile operators agree on how to safeguard children using mobile phones”
• Health on the Net Foundation
• Internet Content Rating Association (ICRA)
• The BBC Trust’s ongoing Public Value Test for the proposed iPlayer
• The UK Government’s Office of Communications (Ofcom) activity around Media Literacy
• microformats.org
• Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA)
• Pan European Game Information (PEGI)
• Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS)
• Resource Description Framework (RDF)
• Recreational Software Advisory Council (RSAC). Now part of ICRA, but described via Wikipedia
• Segala
• Titanic
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• W3C mobileOK
• W3C Semantic Web Activity
• W3C Semantic Web Education & Outreach (SWEO) Interest Group
• W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
• W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

This conversation was conducted by telephone on Wednesday 7 February 2007, edited in Audacity, and tidied up with Levelator.

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