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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