discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

Lucas Gonze wrote:
> I'd like to be able to use the CC schema at http://web.resource.org/cc/ 
> in non-RDF XML.  This is because the schema should be useful to people 
> who, right or wrong, aren't willing to pay the RDF tax.  A lot of people 
> will not use RDF at this point, and there's no technical reason why that 
> should prevent them from using the CC schema.
>
> Obviously I can just go ahead and do that, but there is one small 
> adjustment that would be nice.  The namespace definition/description at 
> http://web.resource.org/cc/ says "The CC schema lets you describe 
> copyright licenses in RDF".  If this said "The CC schema lets you 
> describe copyright licenses in XML", it would be easier to sell people 
> on using CC.

If I understand correctly, you want people to use the existing RDF/XML 
format, but help them to think of it as plain XML.  That's fine -- it is 
XML after all, and more adoption is better.

http://web.resource.org/cc/ is just a namespace in XML.  The schema that 
happens to be available from that URI is a RDF schema.  I can't think of 
a great way to remove references to RDF from that document and keep it 
accurate (not to mention that there are people who like RDF).

Would it help to have a completely separate page that explains how to 
use CC metadata in XML with no explicit mention of RDF?

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