The server probably should return XMP as well as HTML+metadata and RDF/XML. And HTML+metadata will not include embedded RDF/XML soon.
On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 08:26 -0400, Nathan R. Yergler wrote: > Couple of bullet points that might answer most of your questions: > > * Right now the individual icon URLs aren't provided by the web service; > the only image provided is the one used in the license-notice HTML (the > generic some-rights-reserved image). > * You can retrieve the questions needed for a sampling license, or issue > a sampling license by using the license class of "recombo" (this is a > historical artifact). For example, > http://api.creativecommons.org/rest/dev/license/recombo will give you an > XML document describing the questions which need to be answer to issue a > Sampling license. > * There currently isn't developing nations license support in the API. > This is mostly because the API is designed to allow applications to > easily integrate the "questions" for generating a license. There are no > questions involved with DevNations -- it's a single, static license > (http://creativecommons.org/license/devnations). > * The web services API currently returns the license RDF and license > URI, but not the actual XMP information. That said, it should have all > the pieces you need to construct it for either the normal CC licenses or > the Sampling licenses. We can talk about generating that from the web > service if it's desirable. > > So I guess the open questions for improving the web services are: > > * Do we need a way to retrieve the license property images? Note that > this won't be such a big deal with the new 3.0 licenses, when the > "buttons" will contain visual indicators of what the license properties > are, depending on the selected license (and that will be exposed through > the web service)? > * Is there any reason to generate the XMP on the server side? > > Let me know if this doesn't answer your questions fully or raises > others. > > Nathan > > > On Thu, 2006-09-28 at 13:04 +0300, Guy Hachlili wrote: > > Hi. > > > > We at Cogniview have been working on an Acrobat plugin that will allow > > adding CC licenses to PDF documents using a wizard. > > > > In order to provide a better user experience, we'd like to be able to > > retrieve the license XMP information for the Developing Nations license, > > and the icons used to indicate the license type (for example, the > > Attribution icon or the No-Derivative icon). We cannot find a way to > > retrieve the locations of the icons or the non-regular-CC license XMP (like > > the Developing Nations or Sampling licenses) from the web-services API. > > > > Is it possible? If not, is there a plan to add support for such queries? > > > > Regards, > > Guy > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > cc-devel mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel -- http://wiki.creativecommons.org/User:Mike_Linksvayer _______________________________________________ cc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel
