some detailed questions about CC RDF
Lucas Gonze
lgonze at panix.com
Wed Oct 29 13:16:29 EST 2003
On Wednesday, Oct 29, 2003, at 13:01 America/New_York, Lucas Gonze
wrote:
> I'm working on CC SMIL metadata and looking at the documentation at
> http://creativecommons.org/technology/developerdocs.
>
> In this example, I need to know what the namespace of "Work" is:
> <rdf:RDF xmlns="http://web.resource.org/cc/"
> xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
> xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#">
> <Work rdf:about="">
> <license rdf:resource="{license_url}" />
> </Work>
> </rdf:RDF>
Answer: it's not defined at http://web.resource.org/cc/ but at a child
page from there, http://web.resource.org/cc/schema.rdf.
>
> In the explanatory text below that there is this --
> "dc:source, cc:derivativeWork
> A Work that the resource was derived from."
>
> What's the difference between dc:source and cc:derivativeWork?
It turns out that cc:derivativeWork describes a child of the current
resource, not a parent, and dc:source describes a parent "reference to
a resource from which the present resource is derived" according to
Dublin Core.
>
> In this item on the same page, it's not clear what the namespace for
> "cc:" elements is:
> "cc:license
> A copyright license for the resource, a structured cc:License. If
> there are two cc:licenses, then the licensee gets to pick which to
> use."
http://web.resource.org/cc, and see
http://web.resource.org/cc/schema.rdf for definition.
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