Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

["Mr. Puneet Kishor" <punkish AT creativecommons.org>]

On Sep 27, 2013, at 8:27 PM, Maarten Zeinstra <mz AT kl.nl> wrote:

> Hi list,
> 
> Creative Commons Netherlands host our own explanation of the CC-licenses 
> onhttp://creativecommons.nl/uitleg/ We have links to all CC-licenses there 
> and we license our entire site under a CC BY 3.0
> 
> I now got a mail with a question why people need to attribute Creative 
> Commons Netherlands when they want to use CC BY 3.0. It turns out that the 
> metadata scrapers sees the website license and adds the extra metadatat to 
> the deed page. 
> 
> How come this does not happen at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/ and 
> wow would I be able to avoid this?



This is almost impossible to answer without actually seeing the specific 
scraper that is making the mistake of combining the un-ported CC BY metadata 
with the CC BY NL metadata. That said, when I identify the RDFa on the page 
using W3C's N3 bookmarklet, I get 

        <http://creativecommons.nl/uitleg/>
                <?> "article" ;
                <?> "Uitleg bij de Creative Commons licenties" ;
                <?> "http://creativecommons.nl/uitleg/"; ;
                <?> "Van "Alle rechten voorbehouden" naar "Sommige rechten 
voorbehouden" Creative Commons biedt auteurs, kunstenaars, wetenschappers, 
docenten en alle andere creatieve makers de vrijheid om op een flexi..." ;
                <?> "Creative Commons Nederland" ;
                <?> 
"http://creativecommons.nl/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Schermafbeelding-2012-12-10-om-14.07.28.png";
 ;
                <http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml#license> 
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nl/> ;
                <http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml#license> 
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/nl/> ;
                <http://creativecommons.org/ns#attributionURL> 
<http://www.creativecommons.nl/> ;
                <http://creativecommons.org/ns#attributionName> "Creative 
Commons Nederland" .

Doing the same on http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ give

        <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/>
                <http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml#license> 
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/> .
        
        <http://creativecommons.org/>
                <http://creativecommons.org/ns#attributionURL> 
<http://creativecommons.org/> ;
                <http://creativecommons.org/ns#attributionName> "this site" ;
                <http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml#license> 
<http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/> .

As you can see, the first one has the URI to the NL version, while the latter 
points to the unported version.




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Puneet Kishor
Science and Data at Creative Commons