discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

["Nathan R. Yergler" <nathan AT creativecommons.org>]

On 7/9/07, Gisle Hannemyr <gisle AT ifi.uio.no> wrote:
> Mike Linksvayer wrote:
> > On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 09:45 +0200, Gisle Hannemyr wrote:
> >> First, I understand that the rel="license" is metadata, and that it works
> >> as a microformat. (Btw. the rel="license" was also used in prior versions
> >> of the machine code, i.e. those with RDF in HTML-comments.)
>
> > Happens to be both a uF and RDFa.
>
> Thanks!  I think I understand that bit now.
>
> >> You also write: "If you provide any of the optional fields in the chooser
> >> (...) those are also encoded as RDFa."
>
> > I think you misunderstand what Nathan meant by "optional fields" --
> > on http://creativecommons.org/license/ click "Click to include
> > more information about your work."
>
> Again, thanks, very helpful.
>
> I did click, and that brought up five additional fields.
> I filled those in, and generated a license template
> which then had some additional RDFa(?) tags.
> Some of those were  in the Dublin  Core namespace (dc:) -
> I won't bother you with those. But I also got the following
> two tags in the Creative Commons (cc:) namespace:
>
> <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#";
>    href="http://example.url/";
>    property="cc:attributionName"
>    rel="cc:attributionURL">Gisle Hannemyr
> </a>
>
> <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#";
>    href="http://morepermissions.url/";
>    rel="cc:morePermissions">http://morepermissions.url/
> </a>
>
> The three values of the "property" and "rel" attributes
> contained in those tags were:
>    - attributionName
>    - attributionURL
>    - morePermissions
>
> The cc namespace is declared as follow:
>   xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#";
>
> Now, looking at the embedded RDF-in-HTML-comment found at this address
> (and also at: http://creativecommons.org/schema.rdf ), I would
> expect to see the same three values (attributionName, attributionURL
> and morePermissions) properly defined.  But I can't find these
> definitions.  Is there something I've overlooked?

Not overlooked, just a recent addition to the schema and not updated
there yet.

attributionName and attributionURL provide a way to define how you
want the work to be attributed.  morePermissions allows you to define
a URL where someone may find information about obtaining, well, more
permissions.  These are actually used by the deeds these days.  For
example, if you click through from a Magnatune page (say,
http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/williams-long/) to the license,
you'll see the deed uses Javascript to reflect the attribution and
more permissions information.

Nathan


> PS. The reason I am asking all these questions (apart from that
>     I want to understand this), is that I am in charge of writing
>     a CC tutorial in Norwegian (I too think that somebody more
>     qualified should do this, but so far, I'm the only one that
>     volunteered).  If any of you read Norwegian and want to look
>     at this work in progress, the URL is:
>         http://www.creativecommons.no/omcc.shtml
>     The metadata bit is at the end.
> --
> - gisle hannemyr [ gisle{at}hannemyr.no - http://folk.uio.no/gisle/ ]
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