License RDF: Difference between revisions

Latest revision as of 21:41, 15 November 2019

Creative Commons provides information on licenses for three audiences: lawyers, humans and machines. The machine-readable information is described using RDF and made available from the creativecommons/cc.licenserdf git repository.

File Naming

Files in the license_rdf module are named using the following convention:

creativecommons.org_license_[license-code]_[version]_[jurisdiction]_.rdf

More generally, you can take the URL of a license (i.e. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), strip the protocol information (https://) and replace all forward-slashes (/) with underscores (_) to arrive at the base filename. Liblicense provides a function to perform this mapping for you.

File Contents

Each file contains the RDF (encoded as RDF/XML) describing the particular license. Information described by the RDF includes:

license name, including translations
license description, including translations
license properties, as described by ccREL

Usages

The license RDF files are used in the following CC applications:

The license engine
OpenOfficeOrg Addin
Liblicense
IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework)

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+Creative Commons provides information on licenses for three audiences: lawyers, humans and machines.  The machine-readable information is described using [http://www.w3.org/RDF RDF] and made available from the [https://github.com/creativecommons/cc.licenserdf creativecommons/cc.licenserdf] git repository.
-Creative Commons provides information on licenses for three audiences: lawyers, humans and machines.  The machine-readable information is described using [http://www.w3.org/RDF RDF] and made available from the Subversion repository in the [http://cctools.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/cctools/license.rdf/trunk/license_rdf license.rdf/license_rdf] module.
 == File Naming ==
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 <pre>creativecommons.org_license_[license-code]_[version]_[jurisdiction]_.rdf</pre>
-More generally, you can take the URL of a license (i.e. <code>http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</code>), strip the protocol information (<code>http://</code>) and replace all forward-slashes (<code>/</code>) with underscores (<code>_</code>) to arrive at the base filename.  [[Liblicense]] provides a function to perform this mapping for you.
+More generally, you can take the URL of a license (i.e. <code>https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/</code>), strip the protocol information (<code>https://</code>) and replace all forward-slashes (<code>/</code>) with underscores (<code>_</code>) to arrive at the base filename.  [[Liblicense]] provides a function to perform this mapping for you.
 == File Contents ==
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 * [[OpenOfficeOrg Addin]]
 * [[Liblicense]]
+* IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework)