discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Andy Powell <a.powell AT ukoln.ac.uk>]

On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Evan Prodromou wrote:

> >>>>> "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/"; />

Yes, this is very much in line with the suggestion that I made here

  https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-metadata/2003-March/000097.html

(Note, the DCMI proposed recommendation for DC in XHTML (URL below)
recommends using DC.rights rather than DC.Rights as the value of the
name attribute).

> 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:

Note that dcterms:accessRights provides "information about who can access
the resource or an indication of its security status" and is therefore not
an appropriate place to put a CC licence (IMHO).

>        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.

Yes, but if the requirement is as simple as

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

and/or

 <meta name="DC.rights"
       scheme="DCTERMS.URI"
       content="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/1.0/"; />

then I don't think that anything needs adding.  If people agree that this
use of the meta tag is useful, then it would be nice to add these to the
examples in that document - but I imagine that it is now pretty close to
closing the call for comments so I'll have to get my skates on! (I am the
author of that document BTW).

Andy
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