Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Jonas Öberg <jonas AT coyote.org>]

Hi Nathan!

I'd be hard pressed to argue semantics with one of the ccREL authors :-)

The specification is clear that attributionURL is "the URL to link to
when providing attribution", which is a reference to the license
requirement. I think what confuses it is that this is most often used,
even in the ccREL examples, to refer to what can be interpreted as the
URL of the attributionName. For example in the RDFa:

This work by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#";
href="http://jonasoberg.net/"; property="cc:attributionName"
rel="cc:attributionURL">Jonas Öberg</a> is licensed under a <a
rel="license" 
href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US";>Creative
Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License</a>.

Sincerely,
Jonas



On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Nathan Yergler <nathan AT yergler.net> wrote:
> How do you believe a web statement differs from the attribution URL,
> functionally?
>
> IIRC a "web statement" is supposed to be a web accessible resource
> that contains information about the rights, permissions, etc related
> to the work. CC licenses state that the attribution URL only needs to
> be cited with the work when it includes copyright information or
> license notice (4(b)(iii) in
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode). So both need to
> be web-accessible resources that contain license, copyright, or rights
> information. I believe that was the basis for treating them as
> synonyms.
>
> NRY
>
>
> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Jonas Öberg <jonas AT coyote.org> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I was just made aware that in the license chooser, when a user enters
>> a URL to attribute the work to, this is stored in different properties
>> in the XMP and RDFa formats. In XMP, it's stored in
>> xapRights:WebStatement and in RDFa it's stored in cc:attributionURL. I
>> understand the difference between the two, but it's not clear to me
>> why there is a difference between how the information from the license
>> chooser is encoded in the various formats.
>>
>> It seems to me that there ought to be a separate field that allows a
>> user to specify a WebStatement, and that the URL to attribute the work
>> to should be encoded in the cc:attributionURL regardless of what
>> format is used.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Jonas
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