On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 7:10 PM, Neil Kandalgaonkar <[email protected]> wrote:
> I didn't ask, but perhaps I could find out. It's an interesting idea,
> although to some degree it's once again postponing the necessary IMO
> work of putting licenses in the database. I mean, Commons regards
> correct licensing as one of the most important activities, and yet
> licenses aren't a real object in the system. It's very difficult to
> gather even basic information about how licenses are used on Commons.
>
> Anyway as far as I can tell, microformats are dead. However, HTML5
> microdata is on its way.
>
>    http://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/
>
> A Google employee wrote that spec, but that's not a guarantee it will
> actually work with anything, or that Google Image Search has any idea he
> wrote it. ;)

OAI and Dublin Core are not dead.

https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Proposal:Dublin_Core

;-)

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John Vandenberg

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