discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

On Mon, 2006-03-20 at 12:12 -0500, Evan Prodromou wrote:
> Anyone know what Google looks at to determine the
> "creative-commonsness" of a page?

AFAIK they'll use either comment-embedded RDF or rel="license" with an
appropriate href value.  The metadata on wikitravel looks fine.  I'd
remove the comment-embedded RDF.  Maybe it is confusing Google, as it
contains lots of other statements and who knows how they're handling it.

Did you have rel="license" before adding the comment-embedded RDF?

Regarding Wikipedia, I doubt Google would recognize links to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_the_GNU_Free_Documentation_License
 as meaningful, and there isn't a rel="license" on them anyway, and I'm 
pretty sure they ignore LINK'd RDF.  Adding rel="license" would be a good 
first step.

Same for articles that have explicitly CC-licensed content, eg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Feuerpois02.JPG

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