discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 23:59 +0100, Sylvain Zimmer wrote:
> The problem is that I'm telling users that they have to put CC metadata 
> on their website. We want to keep it simple so this solution would be 
> ideal, but it's not in 
> http://creativecommons.org/technology/metadata/extend ...
> 
> LINKing to a .rdf is not supported by all readers but what about this ? 
> if valid, is it supported at all ? ;-)

As far as I know there is zero support in programs for the scheme
described.  Even <link> is ignored (afaik) by Yahoo! and Google's CC
searches.

Is there some reason you can't use RDF embedded in HTML comments, apart
from ugliness?

Are you conveying any information beyond "this page is CC licensed"?  If
the answer is no, <a rel="license" href="license url"> will work,
meaning it will get your pages indexed appropriately.

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  Mike Linksvayer
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