Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Maarten Zeinstra <mz AT kl.nl>]

Thanks Mike!

So you would actually advise not using the CC:License term in this case?

Also a more general comment towards the CC Global. Do you have any interest 
in structurally pushing/updating CCrel or is it in your interests to not 
further that data standard?

Cheers,

Maarten
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> On 11 Mar 2015, at 5:56 , Mike Linksvayer <ml AT gondwanaland.com> wrote:
> 
> On 03/09/2015 05:34 AM, Maarten Zeinstra wrote:
>> What does the list suggest we do in this project? Should we adopt
>> CC:License or is it better to use odrs:RightsStatement or odrl:policy?
> 
> dcterms:RightsStatement
> 
> IIRC CC stuck with license/License for PDM when that was introduced so
> that the (mostly theoretical, and likely doing regexps on a page rather
> than parsing RDF) consumer would not have to know about another
> property/class. But arguably CC REL ought have been (or ought be still)
> updated such that cc:license is a subproperty of dcterms:rights rather
> than dcterms:license and cc:License a subclass of
> dcterms:RightsStatement rather than dcterms:LicenseDocument.
> 
> Again IIRC dcterms:RightsStatement and LicenseDocument did not exist
> until 2008. Had they existed in 2002, I guess the vocabulary CC
> introduced (later branded as CC REL) would have used one of them
> directly rather than introducing cc:License. Which brings us back to the
> answer to your question.
> 
> Mike
> 
> p.s. I'm using dcterms: for precision and because I note the EDM
> document does, though one of my super tiny pet peeves
> <http://gondwanaland.com/mlog/2014/02/04/one-dc/> concerns never using
> DCES 1.1 for anything (all its terms are mirrored in dcterms) and thus
> only/always using dc: prefix for http://purl.org/dc/terms/
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