Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

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

I concur with nearly everything Nathan Kinkade said.

With respect to the adding from URL, the interesting thing is not adding
the URL of the image/video/etc (as currently supported) but from a page
that contains the resource + metadata.

With respect to your proposal, I'd rather see proposals that focus on
doing one thing really, really well and completely than on a couple of
different projects.

Regards,

Nathan


On 04/08/2010 12:56 PM, Nathan Kinkade wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:43 PM, Cassio Melo <cassio.ufpe AT gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think I will apply for other project, to not be unfair with other 
>> students
>> that are already engaged in this project longer than me :)
>>
>> As for the FF and Chrome extensions... I think adding support to the
>> Wordpress Media Manager is more important to CC, isn't it? Or maybe both
>> projects in the same application (I think it's viable and it may increase 
>> my
>> points)?
>>
>> I would like to know your opinion about the following part of my
>> application:
>>
>> Wordpress Media Manager Extension
>> ===========================
>>
>> 1. Project planning
>>
>> Delivering it as a plugin is the preferred option. However some issues have
>> to be considered like for example, how to deal with metadata imported from
>> an URL or in case of inserting the license code along with the media in the
>> page. A patch might be needed along with the plugin.
>>
>> 2. Extending Media Manager interface to support CC licensing process
>>
>> This is relatively easy to accomplish using the LicenseChooser.js for
>> integrating license selection into the application.
>>
>> 3. Store license and attribution information in the WordPress database
>>
>> I will investigate the appropriate handling of licensing information in the
>> Wordpress database and to insert the license metadata in the media (it 
>> might
>> require a patch for that).
>>
>> Possible additional contributions (time permitting):
>>
>>    - Include support for adding media from URL (fetching the license
>> metadata as well);
>>    - Create an extension for Joomla as well;
>>
>>     Once installed, the license-selection extension will appear as a
>> fieldset right below the file information (title, caption, etc). It will
>> generate a the license logo and a short summary of the license chosen right
>> after the selection (using AJAX).
>>
>> ====
>>
>> Too confusing? I appreciate any feedback!
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Cassio
> 
> Cassio,
> 
> I'm personally more interested in WordPress integration, but others
> may disagree or have interests elsewhere.
> 
> 1) Yes, a plugin is ideal.  I can't speak for other people at CC, but
> for me any integration that requires changes to the core WordPress
> code is not particularly interesting.  It would hamper and complicate
> uptake by people.   Ideally, the plugin would be simple and elegant,
> to such a degree that WordPress devs may even at some point consider
> integrating the functionality into the core code, obsoleting the
> plugin.
> 
> 2) I personally would rather a plugin not leverage LicenseChooser.js,
> but support only the "Unported" licenses.  This should greatly
> simplify the plugin, making necessary only a single call the CC API to
> find what the latest version of the Unported licenses are.  Other
> will/may disagree with me on this, and it is just my personal view on
> it so it shouldn't be taken as me setting any guidelines on the
> project.
> 
> I'm not sure how you would implement grabbing metadata while fetching
> an image from a URL.  The URL for the image may not be at all related
> to the actual page where the image is displayed, and that page is
> where any metadata would likely be ... unless I'm confusing something.
> 
> Again, this is just my personal feedback.  I'm not defining the
> project and others, principally Nathan Yergler, may differ from me and
> basically he'll be the one likely setting the project bounds and
> scope.
> 
> Best
> 
> Nathan

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Nathan R. Yergler
Chief Technology Officer
Creative Commons

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