discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Lucas Gonze <lgonze AT panix.com>]

On Wednesday, Dec 3, 2003, at 14:38 America/New_York, Evan Prodromou 
wrote:
> Oh, and: obviously, this would just be one more way to encode metadata
> in HTML. It wouldn't necessarily replace the RDF, just be another way
> of doing it. Instead of having folks do <link> and <meta> tags any old
> way -- which they're probably going to end up doing, since not
> everyone loves RDF -- it'd be better to specify how to do it, so
> there's a recommendation for doing it uniformly.

I basically agree with Evan.  I don't see the harm in a meta tag, and 
not having all that verbose RDF might bring people in who wouldn't do 
it otherwise.

It would also work to have a "link rel=" element pointing to a page of 
CC RDF, or even to have a registry of URLs released under a CC license 
but without an embedded claim in the HTML.  Let a thousand flowers 
bloom.

- Lucas