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  • From: Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Brian Erdelyi <brian_erdelyi AT yahoo.com>, discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work <cc-metadata AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-metadata] Extending CC Meta-Data
  • Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2006 11:50:05 -0800

On Wed, 2006-03-08 at 04:57 -0800, Brian Erdelyi wrote:
> Thanks for the W3 reference, I'll continue to familiarise myself with the
> format.
>
> >From this example...
>
> <License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/";>
> <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Reproduction"; />
> <permits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Distribution"; />
> <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Notice"; />
> <requires rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/Attribution"; />
> <prohibits rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/CommercialUse"; />
> </License>
>
> I would reference the software's license (likely proprietary) in the first
> line and follow it by the characteristics.
>
> PERMIT, REQUIRES and PROHIBIT are the three types of characteristics that
> CC includes, and each can have specified values.
>
> If I were to extend a vocabulary I would create additional characteristic
> types and specify possible values for each? I'll give this some thought to
> determine what works best. My initial thought is that I only need a
> characteristic that will describe OPERATION, BEHAVIOR or FUNCTIONALITY of
> the software.
>
> Would adding additional values to the existing CC characteristics cause any
> problems or concern?

There would be no problem. Keep in mind that in the above statement
License, permits, requires and prohibits are in the
http://web.resource.org/cc/ namespace, which would be defined in an
xmlns attribute the above is wrapped in.

You'd presumably have something like

<eula:EULA rdf:about="http://example.com/eula.html";>
<cc:prohibits
rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/CommercialUse"; />
<eula:requires rdf:resource="http://eula-rdf.org/Soul"; />
</eual:EULA>

where the cc and eula namespaces would be specified in xmlns attributes.

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





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