The Quatro Plus Project

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The Quatro Plus Project

• A universal platform for machine-readable labels

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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

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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

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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

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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 labels 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

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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

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Original Quatro Architecture
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Quatro Extended Architecture
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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.

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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.

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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

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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).

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Contact us

• Project Manager, Sheena Bassett, at MDR
• Partners, 4 Henfold Cottages, Dorking, RH5 5AG,
  United Kingdom
• sheena.bassett_at_mdrpartners.com
• Tel [phone]
• Technical Manager, Vangelis Karkaletsis,
• at NCSR, Patriarchou Grigoriou,
• 153 10 Aghia Paraskevi, Attikis, Greece
• vangelis_at_iit.demokritos.gr
• Tel [phone]