Dan,

apologies for my harsh comments yesterday -- I realize they were not
helpful to advance the dialogue -- and I'd like to continue on a more
positive note: you're right.

The URL can indeed be whatever the author would like it to be. In order for
the verification to work, that URL needs be something that includes the
license RDFa and a SHA1 sum of the work. This seems to lend itself more
towards thinking of the URL as referring to the work itself, however,
there's nothing preventing an author -- and some might even chose this --
to list all the works on a single URL and use this URL as the attribution
URL.

I'd say associating the attributionURL with work is thus as wrong as
associating it with attributionName: it can be either, or neither.

It does seem useful to write this up and clarify though, but it needs not
be part of the standard document itself but can be part of implementation
guides, examples, etc. Where do you think it makes most sense to gather
information like this -- suggestions for improvement s, clarifications, and
guidance for people implementing it?

Sincerely,
Jonas




On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:18 PM, Dan Mills <[email protected]> wrote:

>  Sorry, maybe I missed something. Where does it say that? The links I
> found (and quoted below) were pretty clear that the URL is whatever the
> author would like it to be.
>
> Dan
>
> On Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Jonas Öberg wrote:
>
> Dan,
>
> I appreciate your input but respectfully disagree on this, since they
> visually (if not semantically) associate the URL with the author, and not
> the work (where the standard says it should refer to the work). However, it
> doesn't feel as if we'll get much further in this discussion. :-)
>
> Jonas
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 9:12 PM, Dan Mills <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>  Sure. Though those are just as valid, since the URL can really point to
> anything.
>
> Dan
>
>  On Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Jonas Öberg wrote:
>
> Dan,
>
> Yes, the only issue I see now is that the examples associate the URL with
> the person, not the work. We do not need go change the semantics of the
> standard, but we should rework some examples and use cases, as well as
> clarify the intended use.
>
> Jonas
> On 13 Jun 2013 20:52, "Dan Mills" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>  Hi Jonas,
>
> I think that should already be possible, no?
>
> http://creativecommons.org/ns <http://creativecommons.org/ns#> says that
> cc:attributionURL is:
>
> "The URL <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#Resource> the creator of a
> Work <http://creativecommons.org/ns#Work> would like used when
> attributing re-use."
>
> http://labs.creativecommons.org/2011/ccrel-guide/ says:
>
> "The attribution URL is important when you want to indicate what URL
> re-users of your CC-licensed work should link to when they attribute your
> work."
>
> It's whatever the author wants it to be, so it could be a link to the work.
>
> Dan
>
> On Thursday, June 13, 2013 at 4:00 AM, Jonas Öberg wrote:
>
> Hi Maarten,
>
> I think it's reasonable to just clarify in the ccREL standard that the two
> are synonymous.
>
> For the RDFa generated, I think that the attributionURL should be
> associated with the work and not the author. Ie.,
>
> This <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"; href="
> http://jonasoberg.net/this-work"; rel="cc:attributionURL">work</a> by
> <span xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#";
> property="cc:attributionName">Jonas Öberg</span>
>
> However, I don't think it's reasonable to make any changes to the chooser
> output without at the same time revising the examples in the ccREL standard
> document.
>
> So what I'm saying is that having a process for how we record "change
> requests" to the standard and how the revision process look like is
> probably more important than correcting these specific issues.
>
>
> Jonas
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 13, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Maarten Zeinstra <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> So Jonas what do you propose.
>
> Would it be better to adjust XMP output of the chooser?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Maarten
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>
>
>
> On Jun 11, 2013, at 18:36 , Nathan Yergler <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > 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
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