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  • From: Nathan Yergler <nathan AT yergler.net>
  • To: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>
  • Cc: cc-metadata AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: CC License Validator
  • Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 21:46:04 -0500

Mike --

All very good suggestions, I think. I'll be working over the next few days to implement them, and will probably post to the list (and definitly my blog @ http://yergler.net/averages) as I get things taken care of. Thanks again to everyone for the feedback.

Nathan


Mike Linksvayer wrote:

Nathan R. Yergler wrote:

Based on yesterday's feedback I've just uploaded a new version of the validator which fixes a handful of bugs. You can find it at http://www.yergler.net/projects/ccvalidator . As always, feedback, comments and (constructive) criticism is welcome.


Very good! I've already found and fixed an XML encoding bug due to your application.

A few suggestions:

<http://w3.org/RDF/Validator> has a few trivial features that really help usability --
* separate forms for RDF textarea and URL input (I think URL input overrides anything in the text area in ccvalidator)
* clear textarea & clear URL
* loads with an example in the textarea, allowing for instant experience


Better diagnosis of error conditions. If my XML isn't well formed, I should be told so, preferably with a list of problems.


Problems with one RDF segment shouldn't impact processing of any others that may be on the page.


In the future you may wish to do more stringent checking of RDF/XML validity. It seems to me that I can add random (well formed XML) junk to a good RDF/XML document that wouldn't get past the W3C RDF validator.


On the results page it may be nice for users if
- RDF/XML source was exposable, perhaps with a CSS show/hide toggle, e.g.,

Segment 1 [show raw RDF]

- anything that looks like a URL was clickable

- rdf:about was displayed. Where the value is "" it should be taken to be the URI of the enclosing document.

- a URI like urn:sha1:... was made clickable as a MAGNET <http://magnet-uri.sourceforge.net> link.

- when an RDF segment is found which doesn't contain CC Work/License info, tell the user, and if possible hint at what might be there, e.g.,

Segment 5 [show raw RDF]
- no CC Work or License info found
- probably contains trackback info


I hope the above suggestions are constructive. In any case, thanks for creating this very useful tool!







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