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  • From: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Thomas Winningham <winningham AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work <cc-metadata AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: BitTorrent
  • Date: Sun, 23 Jan 2005 23:20:01 -0800

Thomas Winningham wrote:
Thank you all so much for all comments. I'm compiling them, and first
off I would agree that a separate dictionary in the .torrent may be
best.
[...]

Based on your use cases I think that 'flat' name-value pairs along the lines of the below would be a good approach. Of course in addition to cc:license you could also have dc:title, etc. Such would map cleanly to a simple dictionary.

However, before you commit to this I'd make real sure that you don't want to include complex metadata in the .torrent. Per-file metadata is the obvious case (which you seem to have ruled out), but there are probably many others. Though if you do think you need complex metadata, you should consider whether it shouldn't live on the web and only be referenced in the .torrent.

On Fri, 21 Jan 2005 21:19:28 -0800, Mike Linksvayer
<ml AT creativecommons.org> wrote:
Something flat, akin to
http://dublincore.org/documents/dc-xml-guidelines/ would probably
satisfy your requirements, though I'm not sure what those are. You can
specify a license with cc:license = licenseURI. Those who want to know
what permissions, etc. are associated with licenseURI can grab the RDF
from that URI.

--
Mike Linksvayer
http://creativecommons.org/about/people#21




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