How about a META tag?
Evan Prodromou
evan at wikitravel.org
Thu Dec 4 17:03:05 EST 2003
>>>>> "ML" == Mike Linksvayer <ml at creativecommons.org> writes:
ML> Well, link tags don't avoid RDF, they just point to another
ML> URI which itself should contain RDF (of course link tags can
ML> point to anything, but for CC license metadata that would be
ML> RDF). I added a note about <meta> tags to
ML> http://creativecommons.org/technology/metadata/extend#html
ML> which already included a note about <link>.
I'm not sure you quite followed me, Mike.
There's an entire standard for doing Dublin Core metadata in HTML
<link> and <meta> tags. No RDF necessary.
Dublin Core (HINT: CC's metadata is a slight variation on DC) has a
whole slew of recommendations for encoding Dublin Core data, here:
http://www.dublincore.org/resources/expressions/
The one for encoding Dublin Core data in HTML is here:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2731.txt
It's dry and boring standardese, I know. But give it a good lookover!
It's worth a read.
Let me also point out that <link> tags and <meta> tags are not
single-purpose little fellows, in the HTML world. They're used for
CSS stylesheets, for navigation, for keywording, for all kinds of
stuff. The DC recommendation is a way to use them for marking up DC
data. Another way is just <link>'ing out to an RDF or other metadata
file.
Anyways, just want to make sure you grokked all that.
~ESP
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