discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Kevin Marks <cc AT mediagora.com>]

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