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  • From: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work <cc-metadata AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-metadata] linking to a license with html
  • Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:37:13 -0800

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 20:06 +0100, Siegfried Gipp wrote:
> Hi,
> i just read the article about how to markup links so point to a license.
> Sugestion was <link rel="license" .../> resp. <a rel="license" ...>...</a>.
>
> I then read that this would only make a statement about the resource beeing
> linked to, but no statement about the resource this link is residing. This
> is
> correct, but no problem: Besides the "rel" attribute there also is the
> "rev"
> attribute you could use. So <link rel="license" rev="????" .../> would do
> the
> trick to make a statement that the license, where this link points to, is
> indeed a license for this resource.
>
> Unfortunately my english is not that good to find the proper word to use
> here.
> I know that the link target is a "license", but i do not know how to name
> the
> reverse. So if any native english speaker would know the right word...

See
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/HTML/2005-rdfa-primer#id0x0d0980d0

So <a about="{subject url}" rel="license" href="{license url}">...</a>

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Mike Linksvayer
http://creativecommons.org/about/people#21





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