Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

["Thomas, Alexander" <athom09 AT emory.edu>]

Nathan,

Is This the RDF you are referring to
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/index.rdf (link provided by Mike)?
If so I can sees how to get the URI and Name and image but don't see how
to get the Description.

-Alex

On 12/6/12 12:50 PM, "Nathan Yergler" <nathan AT yergler.net> wrote:

>Hi Alex,
>
>I don't believe any of the APIs support what you're looking for. Your
>best bet may be to grab the RDF files that CC uses to describe the
>licenses, and use those for your information. Every license CC has
>issued (including deprecated ones) will be in there, and you can get
>the URI, name, and description from them. I'm not sure which PNG image
>you're referring to, maybe the icon for the license? I can't recall if
>that's in the RDF or not. I believe the license.rdf repository on
>http://code.creativecommons.org/ has all of these files.
>
>Hope that helps.
>
>NRY
>
>
>On Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 11:44 AM, Thomas, Alexander <athom09 AT emory.edu>
>wrote:
>> I am building a feature on a website that will allow users to specify a
>> license with their work.
>> I need to be able to query all avaliable license info including Name,
>>URI,
>> Description and PNG image.  This also needs to include older versions
>>of the
>> license.
>> I have looked at the javascript chooser
>> (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Web_Integration) and the rest api
>> (http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Web_Services).
>> However these appear to only return current versions of the license
>>(3.0)
>> and I don't see a way to query all the license in either tool. They both
>> seems to be geared toward choosing options.
>>
>> Any assistence in this matter would be of great help!
>>
>> Thank you
>> Alex
>>
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