discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Bardo Nelgen <mailing.list.inbox AT bnnperformances.de>]

Mike Linksvayer wrote:

> Bardo Nelgen wrote:
>
> > If they use it as default mehtod for embedding XMP - why not make it 
> > default for CC-Licenses either ?
>
> XML content in a <script> element doesn't validate  (...)
>
> At this point I don't think we'll change the default for publishing CC 
> metadata until the W3C comes up with a RDF-in-XHTML recommendation.  
> Ben Adida, CC's W3C rep, is staying on top of that process.

Ah, I see....

> > By the way: Does anyone know an XMP-reader, which is already capable 
> > of parsing nomal, valid RDF, which contains other tags (e.g. CC) in 
> > addition to the XMP values ???  :-|
>
>
> An XMP reader (for example whatever is built into Photoshop CS) can 
> read RDF with CC properties.  See 
> <http://creativecommons.org/technology/xmp-help#cc-panel>, which 
> demonstrates this (it displays the value of cc:license).  XMP can 
> handle arbitary properties within the subset of RDF it supports -- 
> that's the eXtensible bit.  It may even parse arbitary RDF, ignoring 
> unspported bits -- 
> http://partners.adobe.com/asn/tech/xmp/pdf/xmpspecification.pdf says 
> rdf:ID and a few others will be ignored, not cause failure.
> (...)


Thanks a lot !