[cc-community] Data Base

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Fri Dec 10 14:37:28 EST 2004


Tim Andonian wrote:
> Is there anyone who is familiar with this stuff and might offer some 
> advice, like what software you are running to manage the Dbase. How CC 
> licenses work with the different formats and and thoughts on which 
> direction I might steer keeping in mind CC licenses. Even just a nudge 
> towards the right sources be it on CC's site, or elsewhere. Thanks

I don't know that anyone is maintaining a local database that includes 
CC licensing info.  The way forward is probably integration with 
forthcoming metadata-aware filesystems and similar, e.g.,
http://www.gnome.org/projects/beagle/
http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/spotlighttech.html
http://msdn.microsoft.com/longhorn/understanding/pillars/winfs/default.aspx?pull=/msdnmag/issues/04/01/WinFS/default.aspx

For what you can do right now, see 
http://creativecommons.org/technology/usingmarkup

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   Mike Linksvayer
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