[cc-licenses] whatever happened to the machine-readable RDF microformats?

Javier Candeira javier at candeira.com
Wed Sep 26 23:39:37 EDT 2007


I have been looking for the machine-readable RDF microformats in the
licensing tool in the CC website, but they appear not to be there anymore.

- Have they been retired?
- Have they been superseded by the rel="license" attribute/value pair in the
link to the license that goes in the HTML for human-readable licensing?
- If not, where in the licensing process does a user obtain them?

The FAQ still says they are there, but it could be outdated:

>  Why did Creative Commons choose to use the RDF format for its metadata?
> 
> Creative Commons looked for the best way to express the intent behind the licenses in machine-readable form. We feel that our system provides the best of all possible worlds: RDF, XML, and even plain text-based tools can easily process our metadata files because we provide them with a structured format. But just as XML tools make it easier to process the information than text-based ones, RDF ones make it even easier -- so we encourage all of our developers to use RDF tools where possible. We're also working with the community to provide CC sample code, in many different languages, that shows how easy it is to take advantage of the RDF information. We're also open to providing converters from RDF to other formats. If you have such a tool or would like one, please send information about it to our metadata list. 

I checked today using the Australia jurisdiction, but I couldn't find it
either using the Spain one a week ago.

Cheers,

Javier



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