Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 09:39 -0400, Nathan R. Yergler wrote:
> I think that a search engine prototype that understood RDFa would be
> really cool.  It would especially be cool if it were generalized past
> CC; that is, building on ccNutch to add support for RDFa, and then
> allowing querying based on the relationships described by the triples
> (ie, documents that have a license predicate, documents that are of
> type "audio", etc).
> 
> I know that a problem with ccNutch before was that we didn't have the
> resources (or desire, perhaps) to run a full-time crawler.  So getting
> a good crawl that actually had RDFa in it would be a prerequisite for
> this working well.  Anyway, in my opinion this would be a really cool
> prototype if nothing else.  Mike, what're your thoughts?

I endorse all of the above, +1 for short. :)


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