That's a great point, the formatting does conflate the creator and the work a bit.
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:11 AM, Jonas Öberg <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nathan! > > I'd be hard pressed to argue semantics with one of the ccREL authors :-) > > The specification is clear that attributionURL is "the URL to link to > when providing attribution", which is a reference to the license > requirement. I think what confuses it is that this is most often used, > even in the ccREL examples, to refer to what can be interpreted as the > URL of the attributionName. For example in the RDFa: > > This work by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"; > href="http://jonasoberg.net/"; property="cc:attributionName" > rel="cc:attributionURL">Jonas Öberg</a> is licensed under a <a > rel="license" > href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US";>Creative > Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License</a>. > > Sincerely, > Jonas > > > > On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Nathan Yergler <[email protected]> wrote: >> How do you believe a web statement differs from the attribution URL, >> functionally? >> >> IIRC a "web statement" is supposed to be a web accessible resource >> that contains information about the rights, permissions, etc related >> to the work. CC licenses state that the attribution URL only needs to >> be cited with the work when it includes copyright information or >> license notice (4(b)(iii) in >> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode). So both need to >> be web-accessible resources that contain license, copyright, or rights >> information. I believe that was the basis for treating them as >> synonyms. >> >> NRY >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 7:19 AM, Jonas Öberg <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Dear all, >>> >>> I was just made aware that in the license chooser, when a user enters >>> a URL to attribute the work to, this is stored in different properties >>> in the XMP and RDFa formats. In XMP, it's stored in >>> xapRights:WebStatement and in RDFa it's stored in cc:attributionURL. I >>> understand the difference between the two, but it's not clear to me >>> why there is a difference between how the information from the license >>> chooser is encoded in the various formats. >>> >>> It seems to me that there ought to be a separate field that allows a >>> user to specify a WebStatement, and that the URL to attribute the work >>> to should be encoded in the cc:attributionURL regardless of what >>> format is used. >>> >>> Any thoughts? >>> >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> Jonas >>> _______________________________________________ >>> 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
