Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

["Nathan R. Yergler" <nathan AT creativecommons.org>]

Couple of bullet points that might answer most of your questions:

* Right now the individual icon URLs aren't provided by the web service;
the only image provided is the one used in the license-notice HTML (the
generic some-rights-reserved image).
* You can retrieve the questions needed for a sampling license, or issue
a sampling license by using the license class of "recombo" (this is a
historical artifact).  For example,
http://api.creativecommons.org/rest/dev/license/recombo will give you an
XML document describing the questions which need to be answer to issue a
Sampling license.
* There currently isn't developing nations license support in the API.
This is mostly because the API is designed to allow applications to
easily integrate the "questions" for generating a license.  There are no
questions involved with DevNations -- it's a single, static license
(http://creativecommons.org/license/devnations).
* The web services API currently returns the license RDF and license
URI, but not the actual XMP information.  That said, it should have all
the pieces you need to construct it for either the normal CC licenses or
the Sampling licenses.  We can talk about generating that from the web
service if it's desirable.

So I guess the open questions for improving the web services are:

* Do we need a way to retrieve the license property images?  Note that
this won't be such a big deal with the new 3.0 licenses, when the
"buttons" will contain visual indicators of what the license properties
are, depending on the selected license (and that will be exposed through
the web service)?
* Is there any reason to generate the XMP on the server side?

Let me know if this doesn't answer your questions fully or raises
others.

Nathan


On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 13:04 +0300, Guy Hachlili wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> We at Cogniview have been working on an Acrobat plugin that will allow 
> adding CC licenses to PDF documents using a wizard.
> 
> In order to provide a better user experience, we'd like to be able to 
> retrieve the license XMP information for the Developing Nations license, 
> and the icons used to indicate the license type (for example, the 
> Attribution icon or the No-Derivative icon). We cannot find a way to 
> retrieve the locations of the icons or the non-regular-CC license XMP (like 
> the Developing Nations or Sampling licenses) from the web-services API.
> 
> Is it possible? If not, is there a plan to add support for such queries?
> 
> Regards,
> Guy
> 
> 
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Nathan R. Yergler
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Creative Commons

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