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On Mon, 2012-07-30 at 11:40 +0100, Seven (aka Arnulf) wrote:<BR>
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<TT><FONT COLOR="#3c3c3c">1. My suggestion is to also use this committee as a hub to build</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#3c3c3c">knowledge around licenses, maintain a repository of initiatives and link</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#3c3c3c">everything together. Not so much like hard metadata in a catalog but a</FONT></TT><BR>
<TT><FONT COLOR="#3c3c3c">lot looser, more like a big bucket with goodies to find.</FONT></TT><BR>
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I think the concept that you're looking for is a "semantic web".<BR>
<A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web</A><BR>
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A bunch of buckets of data, and you define the characteristics of the buckets so software can use (and display) the info.<BR>
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* You have a license object which defines the characteristics of a license. Probably defined in something like XML.<BR>
* You define a license (identifier="CC-BY-SA", name="Creative Commons ... etc", restrictions="share-derivatives,attribute", etc...) -- except you probably use XML.<BR>
* You have a data object which defines the characteristics of some data, and this includes the license (identifier).<BR>
* You define data using the data object characteristics.<BR>
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If a data definition is available through a URL, inside that definition will be the relevant other objects, including the URL of the data object definition, the license identifier ("CC-BY-SA"), and the URL of the definition of the license. Similarly, the license includes the URL of the license object which defines all the license fields.
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