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  • From: Jonas Öberg <jonas AT coyote.org>
  • To: Anhad Jai Singh <ffledgling AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: "cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org" <cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] Using ccREL with individual media elements on a page
  • Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:29:38 +0200

Hi Anhad,

this should *definitely* be validated by a semantic web guru, but I'd think you could specify this as metadata in a way similar to the below. You don't need to have it as part of the content and having it as part of the content is actually only one of the ways mentioned in the XHTML specification (section 24.3 - Metadata as content, available here http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-xhtml2-20060726/mod-metaAttributes.html)

<img src=""CC_image.png"" height="200px" 
 xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/">
<meta property="dct:title">Sharing Creative Works</meta>
<meta property="cc:attributionName">Creative Commons</meta>
<link rel="cc:attributionURL dct:creator" href=""http://creativecommons.org/" />
<link rel="license" href=""http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/" />
</img>


Sincerely,
Jonas


On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 2:38 AM, Anhad Jai Singh <ffledgling AT gmail.com> wrote:
Hi,

During a recent discussion with Dan about using ccREL to display licensing information on a page we found ourselves in a bit of a quandary.

I want to embed the licensing information for media in a page and associate licensing information to a specific file/piece of media on the page, but do not want this information to be part of the visible HTML. 

<div about="CC_image.png" xmlns:dct="http://purl.org/dc/terms/" xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"> <img src=""CC_image.png"" height="200px" /> <br /> This image, entitled <span property="dct:title">Sharing Creative Works</span>, by <a href=""http://creativecommons.org/" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL dct:creator">Creative Commons</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href=""http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/"> Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License</a>. </div>



The example(above) from the ccREL by Example guide (http://labs.creativecommons.org/2011/ccrel-guide/#Images) displays licensing information explicitly on the page and if one were to hide the parts of the text outside of the tags, then the license would be incomplete. I was wondering if there was an alternate way to represent/associate the licensing meta-data with the image in a invisible form. Something that is present in the DOM of the page but is not visible to the user (This can be used by other scripts, plugins etc running in the background). One obvious way to do it would be to simply wrap the license text in another <div> tag and edit the CSS properties of the page to hide the contents of the tag, but I am hoping there is a better way to go about this.

Is anyone aware of alternate representations or any solutions that would work in such a scenario?

--
Regrads,
Anhad Jai Singh (:ffledgling)

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