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- From: "Nathan R. Yergler" <nathan AT yergler.net>
- To: cc-metadata AT lists.ibiblio.org
- Cc: metadata AT creativecommons.org
- Subject: License Validation Web Application
- Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 08:00:36 -0500
In response to the "technology challenges" posted by the Creative Commons, I've spent the past week hacking together a License Validation Web Application. It currently accepts either a block of pasted-in RDF or a URL. In the case of a URL, it retrieves the document and extracts any blocks of RDF it finds using a simple regex.
You can find the validator at http://www.yergler.net/projects/ccvalidator. Development "news" can be found at http://www.yergler.net/averages/archives/ccvalidator. As part of it's development I also put together a Python class which wraps CC licenses; I'll be posting that in the near future.
Currently there are a couple of areas for improvment. First, it runs as a stupid CGI, which means the output is hard-coded into the script with print statements. This was obviously done just for proof-of-concept, so any suggestions on templating or CGI helper modules would be appreciated. Second, it's a little silly with the way it handles nested "objects", such as an Agent as the dc:author property of a work. It displays most of the information correctly, but probably could be improved.
I'd love to hear any feedback, suggestions or ideas. If you find a problem, please send a test case (ie, the RDF or URL) which breaks it, so I can get that fixed.
Nathan R. Yergler
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License Validation Web Application,
Nathan R. Yergler, 10/16/2003
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Re: License Validation Web Application,
Chris Karr, 10/16/2003
- Re: License Validation Web Application, Mike Linksvayer, 10/16/2003
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Re: License Validation Web Application,
dcrkid, 10/16/2003
- CC-aware filesharing (was Re: License Validation Web Application), Mike Linksvayer, 10/16/2003
- Re: License Validation Web Application, Susheel Daswani, 10/16/2003
- Re: License Validation Web Application, dcrkid, 10/17/2003
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Re: License Validation Web Application,
Chris Karr, 10/16/2003
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