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  • From: Nathan Yergler <nathan AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Wendy Bossons <wbossons AT mit.edu>
  • Cc: cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] More on Re: CC 1.5 and embedding RDF
  • Date: Thu, 3 Dec 2009 09:58:37 -0800

HI Wendy,

You should be able to append "rdf" to any license URL to get the
RDF-XML describing the license.

So http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/, for example, will give
you the RDF description of BY 1.0.

Nathan


On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Wendy Bossons <wbossons AT mit.edu> wrote:
> Forgive my newbie-ness, but I have one further question that's related to my
> original "which rdf block in the response is used for what purpose"
> question.  The application I'm working on, dspace, allows the administrator
> to view a transformed/serialized version of the rdf, which I believe
> represents the license in ccREL.
> I am unfamiliar with pre-1.5 versions of the API, and understand that this
> application used the integration approach with Creative Commons.
> If I enter a license url such as
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/rdf, it returns the
> transformed version of the rdf to which I referred above.
> Was that same pattern followed for version 2 licenses? (e.g.
> http://creativecommons.org . . ./2.0/.../rdf)   The versions of the
> transformed rdf for both the version 2 and version 3 licenses (in dspace)
> look very similar. If that's the case, my application may no longer need to
> be transforming the rdf as it was prior to my work.
>
>
> ..\Wendy
> Wendy Bossons
> Web Developer
> Contact Information:
> wbossons AT mit.edu
> 617-253-0770
>
>
>
>
>
> On Nov 30, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Wendy Bossons wrote:
>
> What is the current recommendation on using the rdf that is returned by the
> CC issue call?
> For example, there are two rdf blocks in the response. Is one for backward
> compatibility? How do you recommend using the response, e.g. if embedding
> the rdf in the page, should one or both of the rdf blocks be used?
> Example from response document:
>
> ...
>
> <rdf>
> <rdf:RDF xmlns="http://creativecommons.org/ns#";
> xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/";
> xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";
> xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#";>
> <Work rdf:about="">
> <license
> rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/"/>
> </Work>
>
> <License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/";>
> <permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Reproduction"/>
> <permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Distribution"/>
> <requires rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Notice"/>
> <requires rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Attribution"/>
> <permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#DerivativeWorks"/>
> </License>
> </rdf:RDF>
> </rdf>
> <licenserdf>
> <rdf:RDF xmlns="http://creativecommons.org/ns#";
> xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";>
> <License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/";>
> <permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Reproduction"/>
> <permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Distribution"/>
> <requires rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Notice"/>
> <requires rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Attribution"/>
> <permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#DerivativeWorks"/>
> </License>
> </rdf:RDF>
> </licenserdf>
>
> Wendy Bossons
> Web Developer
> Contact Information:
> wbossons AT mit.edu
> 617-253-0770
>
>
>
>
>
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