Developer discussion for Creative Commons technology and tools

[Andrew Smith <asmith16 AT littlesvr.ca>]

Thanks, that helped a lot.

To answer my own questions (in case someone else is looking for the same):

* xmpRights:WebStatement has conflicting definitions. This set of wiki 
pages says it should point to a work-specific URL:

https://wiki.creativecommons.org/XMP#Specifying_License_Information
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/WebStatement
https://wiki.creativecommons.org/Embedded_Metadata

but the following documents (including the CC chooser) say no such thing:

https://creativecommons.org/choose/
http://www.metadataworkinggroup.org/pdf/mwg_guidance.pdf
XMPSpecificationPart1.pdf

So I will assume that the wiki pages were written before or despite both 
the common and specified rules and will ignore them (should fix them at 
some point). I will use xmpRights:WebStatement to point to an author's 
URL, not necessarily specific to the work.

* dc:rights and cc:AttributionURL will be set to the same as 
xmpRights:WebStatement

* I'll set xmpRights:UsageTerms to a human-readable string though I 
don't really see the point.

* Things can be both in the same and in separate <Description> elements. 
And according to the XMP specification they can just as well be 
attributes as elements. I shiver thinking of what it takes to write a 
proper parser for this horror.

Cheers,

Andrew

On 24/03/15 17:49, Matt Lee wrote:
> Hey Andrew,
>
> Thanks for helping out with this part of the puzzle. For those
> following along, this work is part of The List app, or rather, some of
> the server side processing components.
>
> I generated a license using https://creativecommons.org/choose/ and
> chose XMP as my output, I got this:
>
> http://paste.debian.net/plain/163046
>
> <?xpacket begin='' id=''?>
> <x:xmpmeta xmlns:x='adobe:ns:meta/'>
>    <rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf='http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#'>
>      <rdf:Description rdf:about=''
>      xmlns:xapRights='http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/'>
>        <xapRights:Marked>True</xapRights:Marked>
>      </rdf:Description>
>      <rdf:Description rdf:about=''
>      xmlns:xapRights='http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/'
>      >
>        <xapRights:UsageTerms>
> <rdf:Alt>
>   <rdf:li xml:lang='x-default' >This work is licensed under a &lt;a
> rel=&#34;license&#34;
> href=&#34;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/&#34;&gt;Creative
> Commons Attribution 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.</rdf:li>
>   <rdf:li xml:lang='en_US' >This work is licensed under a &lt;a
> rel=&#34;license&#34;
> href=&#34;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/&#34;&gt;Creative
> Commons Attribution 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.</rdf:li>
>   <rdf:li xml:lang='en' >This work is licensed under a &lt;a
> rel=&#34;license&#34;
> href=&#34;http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/&#34;&gt;Creative
> Commons Attribution 4.0 International License&lt;/a&gt;.</rdf:li>
>   </rdf:Alt>
>        </xapRights:UsageTerms>
>      </rdf:Description>
>      <rdf:Description rdf:about=''
>      xmlns:dc='http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/'>
>        <dc:title>
> <rdf:Alt>
>   <rdf:li xml:lang='x-default'>Photo of a cat</rdf:li>
>   <rdf:li xml:lang='en_US'>Photo of a cat</rdf:li>
> </rdf:Alt>
>        </dc:title>
>      </rdf:Description>
>      <rdf:Description rdf:about=''
>        xmlns:cc='http://creativecommons.org/ns#'>
>        <cc:license 
> rdf:resource='http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/'/>
>      </rdf:Description>
>      <rdf:Description rdf:about=''
>        xmlns:cc='http://creativecommons.org/ns#'>
>        <cc:attributionName>Matt Lee</cc:attributionName>
>      </rdf:Description>
>
>    </rdf:RDF>
> </x:xmpmeta>
> <?xpacket end='r'?>