Content Labels

Scheduled Update

Kamrul — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 13:32:00 +0000

From now through Monday early hour contentlabel.org will undergo extensive update process. Due to this reason, you might face temporary glitches & sluggishness accessing pages or certain contents.

However this updates must be done, in order to achieve our intended target to provide user-friendliness and better information.

We apologize for the inconveniences. Thank you for your supports and patience.

Web site update

Paul Walsh — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 20:13:26 +0000

I’ve updated the about and people pages. Both pages need more work but it’s a good start. Please let me know if you would like to contribute to the creation of new codes of conduct for which we will create, discuss, formalise and promote Content Labels. If you have already been in touch to volunteer your time, please accept my sincere apology - please drop us a note to give a nudge.
David Rooks is setting up the wiki.

I’d like to say thanks to Dennis for setting up other stuff - need to review what he has done to see where it can fit in with the site. Which reminds me, the site will be redesigned very soon.

Content Labels get thumbs up from the Equity Kicker

Paul Walsh — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 18:00:43 +0000

Nic Brisbourne from Esprit Capital Partners (AKA Equity Kicker) wrote what can only be described as a fantastic post about Content Labels :

It is early days yet, but I like this because it is a solution to part of the search problem - it would be cool if a search on my mobile phone only returned sites that were certified as mobile ready - and in theory this could be extended in almost any direction. Cites could be certified as “business” or “blogs” for example, which would really help weed out the unwanted from search results. It might even be possible to include socially generated metadata in some way.

Read the full article

Firefox extension that supports the Semantic Web

Paul Walsh — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 01:24:03 +0000

A non-commercial Firefox extension that reads Content Labels is now available – the working name is Search Thresher.

In case you’re wondering, a thresher is a machine that sorts the wheat from the chaff

How it works

When conducting a search using an engine such as Google, Search Thresher highlights Web sites that make claims about conformance to a standard, best practice or code of conduct. It does this by annotating each search result with a colour coded icon. Clicking on an icon provides more information about the claims being made. This means you can learn more about the trust that site owners wish to claim *before* entering their Web site.

In the example below we conducted a search for information about blogger and podcaster Tom Raftery. Tom’s own Web sites have been independently audited and certified for Web accessibility compliance and therefore annotated with a green tick.

Sites that don’t make any claims are annotated with a red X and sites which make claims about themselves receive an amber tick. More detailed information can be found on the Search Thresher site.

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Welcome to Contentlabel.org

Paul Walsh — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 14:39:25 +0000

The site should be up and running within the next few days. Perhaps we’ll ask Santa Clause to officially launch it - we’re not sure if we’ll get him to deliver a keynote speech given his busy schedule though.

We’re working hard to get the theme right and the wiki up and running. Sam Sethi has volunteered to create the wiki but he’s busy getting his own blog up at present.

Please leave your details if you’re interested in participating and we’ll add your name to the list of contributors.

Our thanks go to Tom Raftery for getting the blog up and running - your work has just started