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  • From: "Firas D." <fd AT firasd.org>
  • To: discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work <cc-metadata AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: rel="license"
  • Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:36:25 -0500
Lucas Gonze wrote:

Thinking in a blue sky mode, my preference would be for the 'license' tag to be a URN. EG:

<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"; rel="http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/RelLicense";>cc by 2.0</a>

This manages to sit on the line in between the lower case semantic web and the upper case Semantic Web. I realize that it's a non-standard approach, but I think this approach is likely to become very common because of the benefits:

* no need to negotiate over bits of text like 'license'

* self-documenting -- a developer can learn about a rel value by going to the URN.

* can automatically check for typos by attempting to dereference the URN.

- Lucas


The bulleted concerns are addressed by the act of formalizing the spec into an XMDP profile--for example,

<html profile="http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/RelLicense";>

<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"; rel="license">cc by 2.0</a>

The exact meaning, documentation etc of the rel value is derived from the profiles referenced in the <html> element.


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