discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

Lucas Gonze wrote:
> I think that there was discussion a while back of having a 
> link[@rel="license"] element in the head of an HTML document.  Is that 
> right?  Am I remembering the syntax correctly?

link[@rel="meta"] is well established and deployed for many uses besides 
CC, and works great if you can accomodate metadata in a separate file, 
see http://wikitravel for example.

I don't think it's ever been discussed here, but I notice that 
Wikitravel uses link[@rel="copyright"] in the manner I think you want.  Hmm.

What was discussed here nearly a year ago is using a dc.rights meta tag, 
see 
<https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/cc-metadata/2003-December/000245.html>.

I'm not sure offhand whether any software (e.g., creativecommons nutch 
plugin, mozcc, ccvalidator, cclookup) actually pay attention to a 
copyright rel or dc.rights meta tag.  I'm planning to document such at 
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/wiki/Developer in the fullness of time, 
but if someone wants to investigate and jump in...

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