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  • From: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: cc-metadata <cc-metadata AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Cc: Eric Jain <Eric.Jain AT isb-sib.ch>
  • Subject: Re: Linking the licenses to alternate representations
  • Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 10:21:42 -0700

This looks right to me, like something we should've done since day one. If I see no objections or improvements I'll implement in a few days.

Eric Jain wrote(*):
On your license pages, e.g.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/,

would it make sense to include an explicit link to an RDF version of the license, e.g.

<link
rel="alternate"
type="application/rdf+xml"
href="index.rdf"
/>

?

This would allow people to reference the license with:

<cc:license
rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/";
/>

An intelligent web crawler could then automatically retrieve the licensing terms, without having to know anything about CC.

(*) Eric's original text said "license.rdf", which I changed to "index.rdf".

Thanks for the suggestion Eric,
Mike

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Mike Linksvayer
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