discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 21:41 +0100, Siegfried Gipp wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 23 Februar 2006 18:00 schrieb 
> cc-metadata-request AT lists.ibiblio.org:
> > http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/BestPractices/HTML/2005-rdfa-primer#id0x0d0980d0
> >
> > So <a about="{subject url}" rel="license" href="{license url}">...</a>
> 
> No :) I don't know of any defined (x)html attribute named "about".

It is part of XHTML2.  I know that is problematic. :)

> But i do 
> know that there is an attribute named "rev". So something like:
> <a href="{license url}" rel="license" rev="{this license where this link 
> points to is a license for this resource here where this link is 
> found}">...</a>
> 
> Or, the same with the "link" element:
> <link href="{license url}" rel="license" rev="{this license where this link 
> points to is a license for this resource here where this link is 
> found}">...</a>
> 
> Just replace this awful long sentence with something else. If the resource 
> the 
> link resides would be a person, the right word might be "lecensee". For a 
> web 
> page this might be something like "licensed resource". I just think it has 
> to 
> be one word, not two. But the correct attribute is "rev".

No, rev does not work.  It is just like rel, only reversed, ie., it is a
predicate.  See http://microformats.org/blog/2005/12/01/rel-vs-rev/

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