- From: Mike Linksvayer <ml@creativecommons.org>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 13:53:15 -0700
- To: Dan Brickley <danbri@w3.org>
- CC: Ben Adida <ben@mit.edu>, www-html-editor@w3.org, "Ralph R.Swick" <swick@w3.org>, Hal Abelson <hal@mit.edu>, tbaker@tbaker.de
Dan Brickley wrote: > However I wonder whether the dc:rights relationship would be adequate here. In the context of RDF CC decided to define cc:license as a subproperty of dc:rights, I believe because the typical use of dc:rights is to provide a very general rights statement, e.g., "(c) 1999 John Smith". A license relationship doesn't attempt to denote the rights holder or other rights details. Subsequently DC introduced dcterms:license, which cc:license is now a subproperty of. Had dcterms:license existed when CC launched CC almost certainly would've used it directly. > A natural question here then, is whether the proposed > xhtml2:license relationship has dc:rights as a super-property. Do you > expect the dc:rights relationship to be true of any pair of documents R > and L that stand in an xhtml2:license relationship? FWIW dcterms:license is a subproperty of dc:rights. > Could you say a little more about why DC doesn't work for CC use cases? > (In [1] I see a CC-based attempt to have the dc:rights property relate a > document to an Agent that is a rights-holder. I remember seeing this a > couple of years ago (DC 2003 meeting?) and thinking it over-stretched > the meaning of dc:rights. The more typical complaint about CC's use of dc:rights to describe a rights holding agent is that a description of the rights holding agent isn't a description of the subject's copyright. DC introduced dcterms:rightsHolder at the same time it introduced dcterms:license. It's been on my todo list for a long time to deprecate our silly dc:rights/cc:Agent use and replace with dctertms:rightsHolder. dcterms:rightsHolder is also a subproperty of dc:rights. FWIW one nice probably unintended feature of adopting rel="license" is that the "semantic XHTML" crowd has already adopted just that syntax http://developers.technorati.com/wiki/RelLicense without suspecting they were on the RDF bandwagon. :) -- Mike Linksvayer http://creativecommons.org/about/people#21
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