Re: "PICS 1.x Changes to support digital libraries (& signatures)"

It's good to see that something positive might have come out of PICS.  
At the time it was a full-on affront to libraries, basically backing  
up the government position that censorship of the Internet was  
something to build into the technology. I'm glad the W3C got out of  
that business!

I agree with Simon that the use of provenance in PICS was interesting.  
PICS was designed for third-party labeling of web sites, something  
still not supported but which could be useful for a lot of different  
functions that resemble what we have today with many social media.  
With the PICS censorship focus it was billed that different groups,  
e.g. churches of different faiths, could create their own set of PICS  
labels so that their members could follow the "right thinking" of that  
group. Ah, those were the days!

kc

Quoting Dan Brickley <danbri@danbri.org>:

> I have a growing interest in Web history, and periodically stumble
> across interesting old docs from the '90s.
>
> Here's today's: http://www.w3.org/PICS/970113/DigiLib/pics970113.htm
>
> It introduces some requirements from the Dublin Core community to
> W3C's PICS effort. This PICS-NG was later rebranded 'RDF'.
>
> I found this after reading the nice writeup at
> http://www.libraryjournal.com/lj/home/891826-264/how_the_w3c_has_come.html.csp
> and dug for evidence that W3C has always loved linked library data.
>
> Copying Eric Miller and Ralph Swick, who are old enough to remember
> when SPARQL servers were called "label Bureau"...
>
> cheers,
>
> Dan
>
>



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