HI Wendy, You should be able to append "rdf" to any license URL to get the RDF-XML describing the license.
So http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/, for example, will give you the RDF description of BY 1.0. Nathan On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Wendy Bossons <[email protected]> wrote: > Forgive my newbie-ness, but I have one further question that's related to my > original "which rdf block in the response is used for what purpose" > question. The application I'm working on, dspace, allows the administrator > to view a transformed/serialized version of the rdf, which I believe > represents the license in ccREL. > I am unfamiliar with pre-1.5 versions of the API, and understand that this > application used the integration approach with Creative Commons. > If I enter a license url such as > http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/rdf, it returns the > transformed version of the rdf to which I referred above. > Was that same pattern followed for version 2 licenses? (e.g. > http://creativecommons.org . . ./2.0/.../rdf) The versions of the > transformed rdf for both the version 2 and version 3 licenses (in dspace) > look very similar. If that's the case, my application may no longer need to > be transforming the rdf as it was prior to my work. > > > ..\Wendy > Wendy Bossons > Web Developer > Contact Information: > [email protected] > 617-253-0770 > > > > > > On Nov 30, 2009, at 5:51 PM, Wendy Bossons wrote: > > What is the current recommendation on using the rdf that is returned by the > CC issue call? > For example, there are two rdf blocks in the response. Is one for backward > compatibility? How do you recommend using the response, e.g. if embedding > the rdf in the page, should one or both of the rdf blocks be used? > Example from response document: > > ... > > <rdf> > <rdf:RDF xmlns="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"; > xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"; > xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"; > xmlns:rdfs="http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#";> > <Work rdf:about=""> > <license > rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/"/> > </Work> > > <License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/";> > <permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Reproduction"/> > <permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Distribution"/> > <requires rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Notice"/> > <requires rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Attribution"/> > <permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#DerivativeWorks"/> > </License> > </rdf:RDF> > </rdf> > <licenserdf> > <rdf:RDF xmlns="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"; > xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#";> > <License rdf:about="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/";> > <permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Reproduction"/> > <permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Distribution"/> > <requires rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Notice"/> > <requires rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#Attribution"/> > <permits rdf:resource="http://creativecommons.org/ns#DerivativeWorks"/> > </License> > </rdf:RDF> > </licenserdf> > > Wendy Bossons > Web Developer > Contact Information: > [email protected] > 617-253-0770 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > cc-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel > > > _______________________________________________ > cc-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel > > _______________________________________________ cc-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-devel
