a discussion
Id' like to see an extension for Berylium that checks/asks for Creative Commons license metadata on file import/upload.
Better yet, a generic metadata extension that would allow sitemembers to be tagged with affero data, links tagged with tackback, etc.
The extension would then serve metadata for the object whenever the object is listed or viewed. It could even be supplied in HTTP headers, which is where Berylium would check for it. I think...
I just wrote to the Open Content Network people to find out if they have a metadata discovery protocol yet. Damn, that's geeky.
Also wrote to Creative Commons metadata list. Aaron Swartz responded with a suggestion to use the HTTP link header like so:
Link: ;
rel="copyright";
title="license name"
This seems like a fine idea, but I'm not sure it fully expresses copyright for legal purposes. Will continue to investigate.
In case you're wondering: why? Or even, why not RDF?
RDF is designed to communicate metadata such as this, but RDF is either embedded in a text-based webpage or requires a separate HTTP request. For a binary file, such as an image, there needs to be some way of passing the metadata along with the binary, and HTTP headers seem like the way to go.
By Chris Snyder on February 4, 2003 at 6:41pm