discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

Evan Prodromou wrote:
> I'm wondering: considering that there's already a very nice standard
> for expressing Dublin Core metadata in RDF:
>
>     http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmes-xml/
>
> ...what was the motivation for making an almost-but-not-quite
> identical metadata format for Creative Commons?

The format is identical -- RDF/XML, and CC uses many DC properties (not 
necessarily correctly, but that should be fixed shortly, pending 
dcterms:rightsHolder approval by the DC usage board).

> Was it just to reify
> the rights and license information? Couldn't that have been done
> another way -- say, by defining a Rights vocabulary?

Essentially that's what CC did, but called it a License vocabulary.

> Has anyone worked on a standard or guidelines for putting Creative
> Commons license information into standard Dublin Core RDF encoding?

I think CC licesnes will be an example case for the DC rights work 
mentioned above.

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