discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

Tom Chance wrote:
> Apologies if this is the wrong list, but I have a question about embedding RDF 
> data in web pages.

cc-metadata (added) is probably a more appropriate place for this question.

> If you have a page that includes several pieces of content, each with a 
> different license, do you embed a different bit of RDF data for each piece of 
> content, encapsulating each bit of content in the data? Will CC tools pick 
> this up correctly?

ccLookup looks specifically for metadata about specific files -- 
rdf:about="urn:sha1:...", but that's a rather niche application right now.

I believe mozCC and ccValidator will find CC metadata about any URI and 
display it.

The search engine only looks for metadata about the current URI 
(rdf:about="" is the common case), though that will change.

> To make things harder, what if the web site (inc. the template) is under one 
> CC license, and then some of the content _within_ that is under another CC 
> license? An example would be:
> http://www.remixreading.org/node/162

If I'm reading right, that's not a good example, as they're both under 
by-sa.  http://www.remixreading.org/node/100 is an example though.

Anyway, right now for a site that primarily catalogs CC-licensed 
content, I'd have the metadata about the current URI pertain to the 
content being cataloged, and refer to another page (e.g., 
/copyright.html) to describe the site license.

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