Descriptive metadata for copyright status by Karen Coyle http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_10/coyle/
In her conclusion, Karen says that "The provision of descriptive data elements that can be transmitted with the work itself should facilitate subsequent uses of the valuable intellectual content that the work represents. Copyrightסrelated metadata, therefore, should be seen as an essential component of the resource description." That sounds nice, but how does it work in practice? When I try to inspect her article at this URL, I find no such metadata. If she added it when she submitted the article, maybe the editorial processes of First Monday removed it? Her own failure to pass through this metadata to the reader should be the strongest argument against her conclusion. If her recommendations aren't applicable to her own article, here and now, will they ever be? However, at the very end of the article, I see this: [logo: Creative Commons License] This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. Copyright ©2005, Karen Coyle where the "Creative Commons License" is a link to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/ and the (C) is a link to http://firstmonday.org/copy.html I'm more and more convinced that these 88 x 31 pixel logotypes are the way to go. HTML metadata tagging is a dead end. It didn't work in the last ten years, and it won't work in the next ten. -- Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WLIC 71st IFLA General Conference and Council Oslo, Norway, 14-18 August 2005 "Libraries: A Voyage of Discovery" Registration: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/registration-e.htm Conference Information: http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla71/index.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to mcn_mcn-l as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected]
