Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Jon Phillips <jon AT rejon.org>]

On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 12:18 -0800, Eric Zimmerman wrote:
> Thanks Mike...
> 
> It's great to see the CC embedding working on web pages....just wish 
> more media repositories like archive, google, yahoo, and youtube would 
> allow searching with a CC license and provide results in a universal xml 
> format.
> 
> It would then be much easier for people to find and produce quality 
> derivative media.
> 
> Eric Zimmerman
> Outhink, Inc.

Yes Eric, this would be great and we should all push for this on our
blogs, at conferences, and make these ideas as hyper-visible (new word)
as possible.

Jon

> 
> Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 11:35 -0800, Jon Phillips wrote:
> >> Hi Eric, check out http://search.creativecommons.org
> >>
> >> Basically, the sites that we add to this use some for of RESTful api for
> >> searching for CC licenses. Try it out.
> > 
> > Well, we use GET for those search engines, but just frame the results,
> > which are HTML.
> > 
> > CC license restrictions, which you can see by looking at the Google URLs
> > generated by search.cc, work in the Google API, but that's SOAP IIRC,
> > and the search results are just web pages.
> > 
> > Some of the others' may be able to return a query-based feed of some
> > sort, but I haven't looked into it.  
> > 
> 
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