discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Lisa Rein <lisarein AT finetuning.com>]

Hi Ben,

Just a note to make sure that no one is confusing the validity of the 
RDF (will the RDF work in CC metadata-compatible processors) to the 
validity of the CC License itself, the legality of which cannot be 
validated or invalidated based on the RDF someone uses.

Thanks,

lisa

Ben Hammersley wrote:
> On Saturday, December 28, 2002, at 12:55 PM, Ben Hammersley wrote:
>
> > On Friday, December 27, 2002, at 11:06 PM, Shelley Powers wrote:
> >
> > > However, regardless of personal view of this, you're pushing a form of
> > > dc:creator that now differs from the documentation that exists at Dublin
> > > Core _in published form_ and that exists in many many many applications,
> > > including every use of RSS actively supported (RSS 1.0 and 2.0), most
> > > weblogging uses, and I bet several other applications. Just something to
> > > note.
> >
> >
> > ARRRRRGHHHHHHH
> >
> > Right. Here's the thing. Simple question for Aaron and Lisa, and I 
> > want a simple yes/no answer. If the word 'huh' appears in any answer, 
> > I swear to god someone is going to get beaten.
> >
> > And the question is thus:
> >
> > Is the RDF representation of the CCL still valid with a string literal 
> > form of <dc:creator> ?
>
> I know this might seem painful, but I really need an answer. Both 
> Shelley and I are finishing ORA books that will contain the CC RDF 
> representation, and mine at least is very very close to going to the 
> printers. There is also the RSS 1.0 module at large, and Dave Winer's 
> self-proclaimed "CCL for all plain XML" spec. People are implementing 
> this with string-literal dc:creator *right*now* (or without regard to dc 
> at all). It's in the RSS validator as of this morning, for one thing.
>
> Whatever the answer, I need to know for my proofs, Shelley needs to know 
> for her first draft, and everyone else needs to know for their code. 
> It's not yet a case of bad-spec-runaway, but it may soon be if people 
> are not advised properly. This is really important.
>
> Ben
>
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