discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>]

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

    Me> ...what was the motivation for making an almost-but-not-quite
    Me> identical metadata format for Creative Commons?

    ML> The format is identical -- RDF/XML, and CC uses many DC
    ML> properties [...].

No, it's not identical. It's close, but not quite. A couple of things:

    * The metadata for a work in DC is an rdf:Description; in CC, it's
      a Work.
    * The CC metadata has a Licence element; in DC, I believe this
      would just be another rdf:Description.

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

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

That's interesting.

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

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

Excellent.

~ESP

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