discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Adam Fisk <afisk AT speedymail.org>]

Hi Mike-

Thanks very much for the info.  So, it sounds like they're probably just 
doing a plain old CC search and just transforming CC results to their 
XML format on their own -- basically scraping the HTML.  Probably not 
that hard to do.

I appreciate the info -- very helpful to know you guys didn't implement 
it on your end actually.

Thanks again.

-Adam


Mike Linksvayer wrote:

> I believe someone from A9 added the CC search engine.  I don't remember
> what is involved although I saw their presentation at Etech and intended
> to do whatever necessary to support it.  Unfortunately I don't remember
> much of anything.
>
> If there isn't an obvious way to find out I'll dig up an A9 contact and
> find out what they've done and what we ought to do.
>
> Apologies for this late and unhelpful reply,
> Mike
>
> On Wed, May 25, 2005 3:29 pm, Adam Fisk said:
>  
>
> > Anyone out there on this one?  I realize it doesn't directly relate to
> > metadata, but seeing as this is the primary cc devel list, I thought it
> > appropriate.  Do you guys just not want the general public using this
> > for now?  If so, that's fine.  Just trying to figure out what the deal
> > is =).
> >
> > -adam
> >
> >
> > Adam Fisk wrote:
> >
> >    
> >
> > > I noticed CC uses the A9 opensearch format.  Is the "OpenSearch
> > > Description Document" for CC available anywhere, or can you just post
> > > the URL and paramater names to use?  Any way to post this information
> > > somewhere on the site so third party applications can also make use of
> > > it?  Is there a better way to do the same thing without scraping HTML?
> > >
> > > Thanks everyone.
> > >
> > > -Adam
> > >      
>
>