The Quatro Plus Project

A universal platform for machine-readable labels

Overview

What is Quatro Plus? • Quatro History & Quatro Plus

Aims and Objectives Who QUATRO Plus is aimed at Tools provided in QUATRO Plus Project schedule Planned events and dissemination

activities Contact us

Quatro History

• The first QUATRO project• Two year project October 2004 – 2006• Developed universal machine-readable labelling

platform based on Semantic Web RDF technology for all labelling systems

• Provided three tools:• QUAPRO – Quatro proxy for communicating label

data• ViQ – Visual interface for display of label

information• LADI – displays icons for labelled websites in search

engine results• Formed the basis of the first W3C Incubator

Quatro Plus

Quatro Plus is a 2 year follow-on project to further develop content labelling tools and promote the advantages of quality labels and trustmarks.

Q+ will make labelling of digital content easier for organisations & people authorised to award quality labels/trustmarks

Q+ will add social networking functionality to labelling, allowing users to express their opinions about labels and to view aggregated information about these opinions

Aims and Objectives

Improve the existing technologies by making the communication processes more secure and robust

Increase the functionality of the existing QUAPRO proxy and LADI and ViQ tools

Allow end users to record and share their opinions about a label’s description

Enable end users to create their own labels to share with friends and associates

Aggregate all available user-generated labels and opinions (without attribution) into an open source of data to provide useful information for end users

Provide labelling tools for domain experts and advice on the creation and maintenance of vocabularies

Develop simple to use tools for label creation Promote the benefits of labelling

Who QUATRO Plus is aimed at

Labelling authorities• Third parties who review websites, award

quality labels/trustmarks and monitor for compliance

Experts• Recognised domain experts whose opinions

are valued Ordinary web users

• People in social networks who want to share their opinions about labels with their peers

Original Quatro Architecture

Quatro+ Extended Architecture

Quatro Plus Tools 1

Quatro's browser extension, ViQ, allows you to see whether the site you are on is labelled and, if so, whether that label has been authenticated by the labelling authority that issued it. To be extended in Q+ to support versions for Internet Explorer and Opera browsers.

The LADI search tool delivers results from either the Yahoo! or Google search engines with annotations next to websites that are labelled. Again, you can quickly see whether the labels detected are authenticated by the relevant labelling authority. Improvements in Q+ will be Integration with the ‘Add Search Engine’ functionality offered by Internet Explorer and Firefox, end user label information aggregation and information presentation.

Quatro Plus Tools 2

QUAPRO• Proxy which provides secure communication between LA

databases, intranets, LADI and ViQ and other applications. Will be improved in Q+ to support user feedback and the sharing of users’ opinions and to semi-automate the addition of new Labelling Authorities.

Labelling & Annotation tool (new)• Easy to use application to enable experts to create labels

and annotations and for end users to record and share their views on specific labels

DaCC• An API which is tailored to enable communication between

QUAPRO and other applications such as Labelling Authority databases. More of these will be developed in Quatro+.

Project Schedule

Improvements to the existing QUATRO infrastructure [May 2008]

Conference to engage Labelling Authorities [2008] Usability evaluation for improved infrastructure [July

2008] QUATRO integration for intranets [October 2008] First Project Assessment and results [December 2008] Completion of the work on quality social networking and

expert input for quality labels [June 2009] Final assessment and usability testing of core

interactive features [September 2009]

Planned events and dissemination activities

These will be announced on the website http://quatro-project.org/

Quatro Plus will be promoted at Safer Internet events such as Safer Internet Days, Awareness Nodes and Hotline seminars

We will also target organisations who are potential “labellers”

Hold a conference to engage labelling authorities in 2nd half of 2008 (probably in partnership with a relevant event).

Contact us

Project Manager, Sheena Bassett, at MDR Partners, 4 Henfold Cottages, Dorking,

RH5 5AG, United Kingdomsheena.bassett@mdrpartners.com Tel: +44 1306 631780

Technical Manager, Vangelis Karkaletsis, at NCSR, Patriarchou Grigoriou, 153 10 Aghia Paraskevi, Attikis, Greecevangelis@iit.demokritos.gr Tel: +30 (210) 6503197