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  • From: Sylvain Zimmer <sylvain AT sylvainzimmer.com>
  • To: discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work <cc-metadata AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-metadata] a rel=meta for license embedding ?
  • Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 12:57:31 +0100

Mike Linksvayer wrote:

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?

We use this for music albums, so there's one <Work> for each track, that usually means a lot of RDF...

Moreover, I've got some problems with utf8/iso8859. Currently, we give our artists the utf8-encoded rdf and tell them to put it in their websites. But as most of their pages are in iso8859, there are some validation issues.

Example : http://validator.creativecommons.org/validate.py?url=http%3A%2F%2Fpcmontigny.free.fr%2Fliens%2Fliens.html&submit=Parse+URI

We can't ask them whether their pages are in utf8 or iso or whatever, it's too complicated. So it would be ideal to host the rdf ourselves and just give them a simple HTML bit linking to it. We can't really use the a rel=license I think, because it's not the page that's CC-licensed, it's the album... right ?

I don't really mind yahoo/google not supporting a rel=meta currently, as long as it's an official way to do it (so they should add support for it in the future.).

So what are your thoughts on this ? Is a rel=meta okay ? Can you think of a better way to solve our problem ?

Thanks in advance !

Sylvain




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