Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

The server probably should return XMP as well as HTML+metadata and
RDF/XML.  And HTML+metadata will not include embedded RDF/XML soon.  

On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 08:26 -0400, Nathan R. Yergler wrote:
> 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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