- From: Toby A Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:36:41 +0000
- To: public-rdf-in-xhtml-tf@w3.org
Henri Sivonen wrote: > I suggest using the built-in key-value mechanisms of various popular > file formats ((X)HTML, PNG, JPEG, Ogg, PDF, MP4, ID3, etc.) to encode > author, license URI and, optionally, a non-author attribution name and > attribution URL inside each file However not all popular file formats *have* a suitable built-in key-value mechanism. Examples: text/plain image/gif text/css text/x-comma-separated-values Another problem with this suggestion is the bandwidth it requires. Why should someone need to download a 200 MB video file to determine its licence? Given that a web page referencing, linking to or embedding the video file exists (as that's how I found the video), and given that the aforementioned web page may already mention the video's licence as human- readable prose, why not allow the licensing information on that web page to be machine-readable too and save tools a big download? -- Toby A Inkster
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