[cc-community] Recording CC license in HTML / Dublincore Meta Data

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Mon Jun 23 12:02:42 EDT 2008


On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Gavin Lawrie <gavin.lawrie at 2gc.co.uk> wrote:
> On 23 Jun 2008, at 16:30, Nathan Yergler wrote:
> > I would expect "DC.license" instead of "DC.Rights.LicenseDocument"
> > (see http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/#terms-license).  Are
> > you possibly conflating the Class LicenseDocument with the property
> > license?

That would be "dcterms.license" given how he defined <link
rel="schema.dcterms" href="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" />

> > Just to re-iterate, we're currently recommending RDFa for expressing
> > this sort of information.
>
> OK - thanks.  Probably me just having a brainstorm.  I'll fix the entry.
> Would like to use RDF if that's the right thing to do - but not yet found a
> muppet level description of how to create the necessary RDF file ... if
> anyone has a link to a tool / guide / example I could use I'd be grateful.
>  All the ones I've seen simply deal with in-line tags for HTML code (e.g.
> the example on CC site) but I'm trying to put this in the meta data for page
> rather than tagging any particular bit.  I'm sure to the clear sighted this
> is not a problem... but seems like apples / pears to me.  :(

Do you have software that specifically consumes DC-in-head metadata?

If not I strongly recommend you do something else, preferably RDFa,
which does "meta data for page" without the problems of putting the
meta data for the page outside the page.  See
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/images/d/d6/Ccrel-1.0.pdf for a
longwinded explanation of why this is a big improvement.

Mike


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