QUATRO Plus: Quality You Can Trust?

Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Trust and Privacy on the Social and Semantic Web ( SPOT 2009

The QUATRO Plus project, a follow on from the original QUATRO Project, aims to balance the wisdom of the crowds with the knowledge of the experts. It uses a mixture of authenticated data sources and the opinions of end users expressed through social networking software to build a dataset that is authoritative and trustworthy. The dataset describes online resources using RDF with the upcoming W3...

Good news when commitment comes from top management

A great part of our daily life is “governed” by software operated systems. Nevertheless, software engineering is still an “elite realty”, often considered an optional plus. Why do we not experience daily disasters using machines? The main reason is that process and controls are embedded in the programmers’ minds. Their skills and experience generally guarantee acceptable final quality-to-market...

Quality Labeling of Web Content: The Quatro approach

QUATRO is an on-going EC-funded project which aims to provide a common vocabulary and machine readable schema for quality labeling of Web content, as well as ways to automatically show the contents of the label(s) found in a Web resource, and functionalities for checking the validity of these labels. The paper presents the QUATRO processes for label validation and user notification, and outline...

Quatro - a metadata platform for trustmarks

The Quatro project has applied semantic web technologies to trustmark schemes and quality labels. Drawing on past and original research, the project has defined a vocabulary that can be used by any trustmark scheme (TMS) and a technical platform to deliver the trustmarks in a format that can be processed by semantic web agents.

Abstract: Can You Trust What You Watch? - an Assessment of the Quality of Information about Aesthetic Surgery Available on YouTube