discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

Carol Spears wrote:
> i have written a plug-in for TheGIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program
> http://www.gimp.org) that gleans information from an image and from the
> creator of the image and embeds it into the image file.

What gets embedded in the file?  XML conforming to your DTD?

> even at this infant stage, it is pretty cool.  I had it working like
> this photoshop plugin: http://creativecommons.org/technology/xmp-help,
> but i wanted more from mine.  it launches a localhost from the users
> online computer, goes to the creative commons licensing page where the
> user steps through the license process and then adds the information
> directly to the image.  No need for the user to select the license or
> the template from the plug-in after doing all this work on the creative
> commons web site.

FWIW we do have a web services interface for choosing a license if you 
did want to build the license choosing process in rather than sending 
the user to the website.  ccPublisher, also written in Python, uses this 
interface.

> information i hope to get from this mail list includes:
>   1) what is a good partner name

Not sure what you're asking.

>   2) what other meta data would be good for my little multi-platform
>   data file?  (what do you want to bet that gimp-python works on mac and
>   windows before photoshop works on gnu/linux?)

If you used RDF (or XMP, a subset of RDF) you wouldn't have to worry 
about this.

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