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  • From: Kevin Marks <cc AT mediagora.com>
  • To: lucas AT gonze.com, discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work <cc-metadata AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: Re: rel="license"
  • Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 02:04:11 -0800


On Feb 7, 2005, at 12:24 PM, 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.

That is not how rel is defined though - the profiles in the head are how you define the extension namespace. The GMPG approach to defining these seem well thought through:

http://gmpg.org/xmdp/description





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