- From: Peter Krantz <peter.krantz@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:10:47 +0200
- To: Joe Carmel <joe.carmel@comcast.net>
- Cc: "Novak, Kevin" <KevinNovak@aia.org>, "Acar, Suzanne" <Suzanne.Acar@ic.fbi.gov>, daniel@citizencontact.com, jonathan.gray@okfn.org, josema@w3.org, public-egov-ig@w3.org, John.Sheridan@nationalarchives.gov.uk, site-policy@w3.org
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 18:34, Joe Carmel<joe.carmel@comcast.net> wrote: > Given our focus on an electronic government, I think > we need to consider recommending that in order to avoid copyright > infringement by machines, governments should consider providing copyright > information in a machine-readable standards-based format (which I don’t > believe exists?) especially for the files on their sites that are protected > by copyright. > This could maybe be a use case for semantic web technologies. In fact, Creative commons have established URI:s for the various licenses which allows them to use them in a machine readable way. An example is to embed CC license info in a XHTML page with RDFa (see http://wiki.creativecommons.org/RDFa). The same method can of course be used in all data served as RDF. Regards, Peter Krantz
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