discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Lucas Gonze <lgonze AT panix.com>]

On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Mike Linksvayer wrote:

> On Fri, 2005-12-23 at 12:04 -1000, Lucas Gonze wrote:
> > I'd like to suggest an alternative (complementary, not exclusive) approach
> > -- embed a unique and canonical ID (preferably a URL) and do the license
> > hacking via web tools which annotate that ID.  This moves as much
> > functionality as possible out of media file formats, which are an endless
> > nightmare, and allows third parties to to create lookup infrastructure in
> > a decentralized way.
>
> That's the intention of the field "pointing to a web page describing
> a file".  I'd love to remove all other embedded metadata completely and
> I'd be happy for people to ignore all other embedded metadata, but not
> encouraging an embedded license hint unfortunately will not fly.


One modification to the job description, then -- say the field is pointing 
a web page which describes that work and only that work.  That way people 
won't have the same URLs for multiple works.