discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

["Mike Linksvayer" <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

John Kwasnik wrote:
>       It looks to me like your method for embedding metadata in MP3 files 
> can be extended to MIDI files as well.  While the MIDI file format does 
> not have a place reserved for copyright info, there are text fields (track 
> titles, track markers) where URIs can be placed.

Great idea.  Could you point us at a reference for MIDI metadata
standards?  Suggest fields we should use?

>        However, the URI would not be clickable, unless all MIDI players 
> were written to allow that ... one would have to cut and paste.

That's the case with any format.  If the player/viewer/reader/browser
doesn't render metadata with clickable URIs, the user must copy and
paste.  Unfortunately such is the case even for most MP3 players, but I
don't consider it that big of a deal.  Usually the user has to work a bit
to even find the metadata.

>        And unfortunately, each field only allows one terminating return,
> so I haven't figured out how to embed the rdf directly.

I don't consider lack of ability to embed RDF directly in a file a fatal
obstacle -- we aren't even making an initial recommendation for embedding
RDF in a MP3 ID3 frame.  However, RDF/XML may be rendered without
newlines, so embedding in a field that uses a newline for termination is
not a problem.

Thanks!
Mike
 Mike Linksvayer
 ml AT creativecommons.org