Andy:
I think you're right and that the CC folks seem To have gone off into
some very rights-centric bushes with their odd redefinitions. I also
find it odd that they don't seem to use Relation, only Source. It
would be good for these issues to be discussed wth them fairly soon
...
Diane
>The Creative Commons (CC) have developed a set of standard licences for
>people to use in order to explicitly indicate that their creative works
>are available for others to build upon and share.
>
> http://creativecommons.org/
>
>I think it will be extrememly valuable for us to work with CC to agree
>mechanisms for encoding CC licences in simple and qualified DC metadata.
>
>CC seems to have opted for an RDF approach. See
>
> http://creativecommons.org/learn/technology/metadata/implement
>
>for details. I don't disagree with this approach in pronciple, but I have
>some concerns about the details of what they have done. And I think it is
>important to agree how we should encode the same information in plain XML
>and HTML <meta> tags.
>
>My concern is that CC have defined dc:rights to be 'The cc:Agent who holds
>the copyright on the resource'. This is somewhat at odds with our
>definition of dc:rights because a simple personal or corporate 'name' is
>not really 'Information about rights held in and over the resource'.
>
>I would prefer to see dc:rights being used to carry the URI for the
>chosen CC licence. If necessary, dc:rights can be repeated to carry a
>human readable 'copyright' string, e.g.
>
><meta name="DC.rights"
> content="(c) University of Bath, 2003">
><meta name="DC.rights"
> content="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0">
>
>or in XML
>
><dc:rights>(c) University of Bath, 2003</dc:rights>
><dc:rights
>xsi:type="dcterms:URI">http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0</dc:rights>
>
>or in RDF/XML
>
><dc:rights>(c) University of Bath, 2003</dc:rights>
><dc:rights rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd-nc/1.0"
>/>
>
>I also wonder if the content at the CC licence URIs should be plain text,
>HTML (as now), RDF/XML or ODRL/XML (or some other form of rights markup
>language) - or if content negotiatioon could be used to determine what is
>served at those URIs.
>
>What do others think? (Detailed technical discussion might be better
>moved to the dc-architecture list!).
>
>Overall, I think it is important that we (DCMI) enter into some
>constructive dialogue with the Creative Commons.
>
>Andy
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