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  • From: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work <cc-metadata AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: Creative Commons vs. Dublin Core
  • Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 14:01:23 -0800

Evan Prodromou wrote:
I'm wondering: considering that there's already a very nice standard
for expressing Dublin Core metadata in RDF:

http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmes-xml/

...what was the motivation for making an almost-but-not-quite
identical metadata format for Creative Commons?

The format is identical -- RDF/XML, and CC uses many DC properties (not necessarily correctly, but that should be fixed shortly, pending dcterms:rightsHolder approval by the DC usage board).

Was it just to reify
the rights and license information? Couldn't that have been done
another way -- say, by defining a Rights vocabulary?

Essentially that's what CC did, but called it a License vocabulary.

Has anyone worked on a standard or guidelines for putting Creative
Commons license information into standard Dublin Core RDF encoding?

I think CC licesnes will be an example case for the DC rights work mentioned above.

--
Mike Linksvayer
http://creativecommons.org/learn/aboutus/people#21




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