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  • From: Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.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 17:21:08 -0500

>>>>> "ML" == Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org> writes:

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

ML> The format is identical -- RDF/XML, and CC uses many DC
ML> properties [...].

No, it's not identical. It's close, but not quite. A couple of things:

* The metadata for a work in DC is an rdf:Description; in CC, it's
a Work.
* The CC metadata has a Licence element; in DC, I believe this
would just be another rdf:Description.

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

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

That's interesting.

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

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

Excellent.

~ESP

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