(Platform for Internet Content Selection) W3C's technology that allows parents to select content for their children on the basis of an open set of criteria, as opposed to government censorship. See filtering. PICS home page
Platform for Internet Content Selection. Specification from the W3C to define the content of your site for your visitors by associating labels (metadata).
Rules that enable Web content providers to use meta tags to voluntarily rate their content according to agreed-upon PICS criteria. Browsers can then block user access to Web sites based on the values of the tags.
A standardized format for rating systems. Note that PICS is not a rating system itself. You could use PICS to rate how quickly sites download, or international languages (French, Spanish,German, etc.)--or, as most people think of them, for G/PG-13/R/X content ratings.
Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) is a Web rating system that has been endorsed by the W3C.
Parental Internet Content Selection
Rating system designed to inform viewer what type of material is on the web site.
Platform for Internet Content Selection, the name for both the suite of specification documents of which this is a part, and for the organization writing the documents. For more information, see http://w3.org/PICS
Platform for Internet Content Selection is an infrastructure for associating labels with Internet content. It was originally designed to help parents and teachers control what children access on the net, but it also facilitates other uses for labels, including code signing, privacy, and intellectual property rights management. PICS is a platform on which other rating services and filtering software have been built.
Platform for Internet Content Selection. Internet content filtering infrastructure. http://www.w3.org/PICS
(Platform for Internet Content Selection). Is an infrastructure for associating labels with Internet content. To know more: http://w3.org/PICS.
PICS Label Distribution Label Syntax and Communication Protocols, Version 1.1, W3C Recommendation 31-October-96; http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-PICS-labels.
Platform Independent Content Selection PICS is an infrastructure for associating labels (metadata) with Internet content. These labels are used for code signing, privacy, and intellectual property rights management. PICS was originally designed to assist in the control of internet content -- to prevent children and sensitive users from stumbling upon unwanted sites.
Acronym for Platform for Internet content Selection, a model for associating labels with content in header metadata, originally devised to help parents and teachers and filtering software control children's access to the net. See the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) PICS Page for further information.
Platform for Internet Content Selection. An evolving set of specifications governing the creation and use of ratings for Web information, including HTML files, as well as image, sound, and animation files. Content providers can rate and label their own Web information; also, independent rating services can rate Web information. Internet users can then request the ratings as a way to preview and filter Web information for acceptable content.
stands for Platform for Internet Content Selection. This lays down a standard for filtering content. Their website can be found at http://www.w3.org/PICS/. Your web browser can be set to exclude web sites with a particular PICS rating (or web sites that don't have a PICS rating). A web site owner can visit the PICS site and fill in a questionnaire that will produce the required code to paste into the web site pages to give the site a PICS rating.
The PICS standard is used to label the content of web sites and newsgroups. In and of itself PICS contains no rating information. Instead, it relies on third parties such as SafeSurf to provide the actual ratings. The PICS puts rating information on web sites in a predictable, uniform way, much as nutritional labels present food content. Various parental discretion software packages, as well as Microsoft’s browsers, Internet Explorer 3.0 and 4.0, use PICS to block access to inappropriate sites.
Platform for Internet Content Selection - PICS is a technology that allows Web browsers to read content ratings of Web sites, but it is not a rating system itself.