discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>]

>>>>> "ML" == Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org> writes:

    ML> However, I welcome further ideas and discussion...

My further idea would be that <meta> tags would work fine. I'd think
that it'd be relatively easy to include the Dublin Core metadata
encoding schema for HTML:

        http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2731.txt

...and simply point the DC.Rights element at the appropriate license:

       <meta name="DC.Rights"
             lang="en"
             content="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/"; />

This is, after all, a recommended use of Dublin Core. The specific
rights and prohibitions aren't encoded in the <meta> tags, but the
DCMI term "accessRights" seems appropriate:

       http://www.dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/

And there's a Working Draft for Dublin Core for adding terms:

       http://dublincore.org/documents/dcq-html/

This is open for public comment right now; a statement from CC about
what we needed would probably go into the final recommendation.

Almost all browsers know not to render <link> + <meta> tags in-line
(I've never seen one that does, but I never question the stupidity of
browser developers), and some actually know what to do with them. They
don't have to be hidden in comments, or whatever.

~ESP

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