To make trusted metadata a ubiquitous part of the Web
Objectives
Identify resources that meet specific criteria, such as:
Quality
Accuracy
Educational value
Trustworthiness
Will work on your mobile device (probably)
Is licensed for public access
Approriateness for children
And many, many more...
Objectives
Identify resources that meet specific criteria, such as:
Quality
Accuracy
Educational value
Trustworthiness
Will work on your mobile device (probably)
Is licensed for public access
Approriateness for children
Identify who is making the claim
Objectives
Identify resources that meet specific criteria, such as:
Quality
Accuracy
Educational value
Trustworthiness
Will work on your mobile device (probably)
Is licensed for public access
Approriateness for children
Identify who is making the claim
Support automated authentication of the claims
Objectives
Identify resources that meet specific criteria, such as:
Quality
Accuracy
Educational value
Trustworthiness
Will work on your mobile device (probably)
Is licensed for public access
Approriateness for children
Identify who is making the claim
Support automated authentication of the claims
Hook up with shared bookmarks, user-generated ratings, reviews, reputation systems etc.
POWDER
Protocol for Web Description Resources
A World Wide Web Consortium Working Group. i.e. same process that leads to things like new versions of XML, HTML etc.
Part of the Semantic Web Activity (will use RDF & OWL)
Participants include Vodafone, AOL, Deutsche Telekom, Opera Software, TRUSTe, Segala, NCSR Demokritos, University of Insubria, Family Online Safety Institute
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The QUATRO Implementation of POWDER
QUATRO Plus will...
Improve reliability, scalability and security of the QUATRO Web Services
Make it easy for Labelling Authorities to join in with minimal effort
Provide tools through which subject experts can create and publish Description Resources (ties in with MedIEQ Project)
Improve end user tools: the Firefox plug-in and annotated search tool
Promote the concept
Add in social-network style recommendation exchange
Add support for expansion of the system through localised intranets
Timeline
W3C POWDER
EU-SIP QUATRO Plus
New drafts of all main POWDER Documents documents December 2007
Multi-server implementation of existing QUATRO Web Services
'Last Call' end January
Call for Implementations March
Quatro Web Services up and running using POWDER
Full Recommendation around May - June 2008
Development of additional features, lots of dissemination work through to September 2009
