metadata fun

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Wed Jul 20 20:19:51 EDT 2005


Jon Phillips wrote:
> That is cool! I think though it would be good to make some generic C
> library like: 
> 
> libccmetadata
> 
> libcc
> 
> And, then make bindings for other languages like python, etc. The point
> of this would be speed and to slap this kind of support into
> pre-existing programs.

Certainly.

> Inkscape already has a generic interface for editing cc-metadata, so
> that could be extracted and placed somewhere as an example
> implementation for developers.

Can you point out the relevant code?

> It is great that you guys put up the cc projects into sf.net. How is the
> building of the development community going?

Mediocre.  I/we haven't been very proactive about telling people how 
they can help.  Brian Heung, one of our interns, recently moved our 
horriblly out of date "tech challenges" to 
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/TechChallenges suggestions or 
better yet direct edits welcome.

It should be easier for outside developers to contribute at least to CC 
Publisher in the next couple months -- see 
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/CcPublisher#ccPublisher_2 for some 
beginning documentation of its extensibility from Nathan.

Also, there's a separate cctools-developer list that might be more 
appropriate for code discussions. 
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cctools-developer

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  Mike Linksvayer
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