discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[admin AT delegatetechnologies.com]

The three day holiday has finally given me the chance to get things back
on track with the CCLicenseLib project(available at
http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/cclib) and I'm finally releasing version
1.3 of the library.  The release provides license version updates,
enhancements to the RDF parsing functionality and introduces new
functionality to parse ID3 and license information from MP3 files (this is
in preparation for the implementation of license verification
functionality into the library). You can download the latest release and
source from the project website (http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/cclib)
and you can view the release notes for this version at
http://www.delegatetechnologies.com/projects/cclicenselib/releasenotes1_3.txt
for more details.

Here are a few quick highlights of the release:
   *Support for version 2.0 of Creative Commons Licenses (Version 1.0
    licenses are still supported as well for legacy reasons)
   *Updated Namespace organization of classes
   *Enhanced RDF parsing. (Parsing routines now only extract CC
    related RDF from a data source instead of all RDF instances.)
   *MP3 ID3 frame parsing support. This functionality is in response
    to Nathan Yergler's release of the ccTag
    (http://yergler.net/projects/cctag/releases/) application to
    embed Creative Commons license information into MP3s.
    (NOTE: this release provides parsing functionality only.
    Tagging functionality is planned to be implemented in the
    next release since there is already a tool that allows you to embed
it, so for now you can only parse information from an mp3 file.)

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Project RoadMap
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At this point, focus will be on testing the existing version of the
library, building a few applications that utilize the library, and
extending functionality to incorporate the following functionality into
future releases:
   *MP3 Tagging Functionality - adding the ability to tag MP3 files with
    CC license information. (this will probably be a port of the existing 
ccTag functionality written by Nathan Yergler from python to C#)
   *License Verification - adding the ability to verify licenses. 
*Database Connectors & Routines - adding the ability to store CC
    license information into various databases. (Since the library is
currently written in C#, initial focus will primarily be on
    integration with MS SQL Server) This functionality will
    include class objects as well as database scripts for creation  of the
appropriate tables.
   *Others??? - If you have functionality you would like to see
implemented
    in the library, please email me with your ideas.

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Project Information:
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   *Homepage - http://workspaces.gotdotnet.com/cclib
   *Message Boards -
http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/MessageBoard/messageBoard.aspx?id=6294
   *Blog - http://www.delegatetechnologies.com/blog
   *Email - cclicenselib at delegatetechnologies.com

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions please visit the
project message boards at
http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/MessageBoard/messageBoard.aspx?id=6294
and post your thoughts there or shoot me an email at
cclicenselib at delegatetechnologies.com. I look forward to hearing feedback!

Highest Regards,

Steve Griffin
Email: steve at delegatetechnologies.com