Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

["Nathan R. Yergler" <nathan AT yergler.net>]

Hi Yanzer,

If you don't want to use the popup shown for web integration, take a look at our web services.  We just launched a new version that supports localization.  You can find information at http://api.creativecommons.org.  Basically you'll make a request and get back a chunk of XML that describes the questions you need to ask to generate a license.  Each question has an "id", so once you have the answers, you POST back an XML block, and the service sends you the results.  The results have the HTML, RDF, license name and license URI embedded.  

The only thing the services don't currently support that the license engine does is the optional work information.  If this is important, you can fake it -- those use standard DC elements, so you can insert the Work block into the returned license RDF.

We really encourage partners to use this service because it allows us to centrally update available licenses, and your site/code "just works".

Let me know if you have any questions about using the services in your site.

Nathan R. Yergler

Software Engineer

Creative Commons

On Sep 1, 2005, at 2:44 AM, Yanzer wrote:

Hi everyone.

 

I am developing the CC Portal for Malaysia. I have some questions about the integration part.

 

For the first questions:

 

1. I had developed the simple license acquirement page here:
   http://www.fireworksmedia.com/~wip/cc/license-index.html
   
   the source codes can be found here : http://www.fireworksmedia.com/~wip/cc/ccmy-license-demo.zip

 

2. In the “Choose license” page : We mimicked the form in the CC.org portal. This form will POST the information such as license characteristic and the information of the work ( title, author..ect) to the result page.

 

3. the result page ( results.php) will then calculate based on the postdata received on which license to show – generally there are 6 licenses.

 

4. then it will insert the data into the page and it becomes what you see in the results page.

 

5. You can see that this is a simple form function that does the trick, HOWEVER it doesn’t really uses the http://creativecommons.org/license/results-one engine ( or is it a webservice ) on the main portal.

 

6. The limitation of this method is that we can’t choose the Jurisdictions,  because for each country they have different version on the license_url ( say brazil is … license/by-nd/2.0 and its different for each country ). So this is my limitation.

 

7. SO THE REAL question is what is the best way to acquire the license_url  without using the popup type that is taught on the web integration bit on http://creativecommons.org/technology/web-integration
   I don’t want to use this because it brings ppl out of our site, then direct them to the main engine, then comes back to our site.. which seems to long of a process.

 

This is my lengthy question, does anyone have the solution? Please reply me… and thanks in advance.

 

Regards,

 

Yanzer Lee

Multimedia Consultant

www.Fireworksmedia.com

 

Fireworks Solutions Sdn Bhd

 

Tel : +603.7710.2995

Fax : +603.7710.2954

NEW Mobile Number : 019.382.1238

 

 

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