discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Evan Prodromou <evan AT wikitravel.org>]

So, has anyone played around with Notation3?

        :Notation3 is dc:subject of
                <http://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/Notation3.html>,
                <http://infomesh.net/2002/notation3/>.

I'm thinking it'd be a nice alternative to the RDF/XML-in-a-comment
method used for CC data.

        @prefix : <http://web.resource.org/cc/> .
        @prefix dc: <http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/> .
        @prefix rdf: <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#> .
        @prefix dctype: <http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/> .
        @prefix cclic: <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/> .

        <http://example.org/gnomophone.mp3>
                is a :Work ;
                dc:title "Compilers in the Key of C " ;
                dc:description
                  "A lovely classical work on compiling code." ;
                dc:creator
                   [ a :Agent; dc:title "Yo-Yo Dyne" ] ;
                dc:rights
                   [ a :Agent; dc:title "Gnomophone" ] ;
                dc:date 1842 ;
                dc:format "audio/mpeg" ;
                dc:type dctype:Sound ;
                dc:source <http://example.net/gnomovision.mov> ;
                :license cclic:by-nc-nd/2.0 ,
                <http://www.eff.org/IP/Open_licenses/eff_oal.html> .

        cclic:by-nc-nd/2.0
                is a :License;
                :permits :Reproduction, :Distribution ;
                :requires :Notice, :Attribution ;
                :prohibits :CommercialUse .

It's also a real possible format for user-edited metadata for Wiki
pages. Like, say, for Wikipedia, if an article is partly copied from
another source, you could write:
        
        <> dc:source <http://www.example.com/~bobn/whatever>,
           dc:contributor "Bob Nelson".

...and the full CC metadata could be augmented with that info. (Note
that this would only be useful for stuff that the Wiki engine couldn't
figure out itself.)

~ESP