Martin McEvoy wrote:
Hello Toby...
Toby A Inkster wrote:
For the purposes of illustration, say I'm writing an article entitled
"Music in the Digital Age" discussing how the Internet has changed
modern music. I may wish to write that:
...
<span class="haudio">
<span class="contributor">Nine Inch Nails</span>
released their recent album
<span class="album">Ghosts I-IV</span> under a
<a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/";
rel="license">Creative Commons license</a>
</span>
Now, an hAudio parser (of which there are few) will interpret this as
meaning that the Nine Inch Nails' album is released under that licence.
But a general rel=license parser (of which there are many, including
Yahoo! (cc) Search, Google Usage Rights Search, and absolutely any
RDFa parser) will interpret this as meaning that the whole page is
available under that licence, which may not be the case.
With rel-tag, the scoping issue is of less importance. If I want to
tag, say, a particular hCard with a tag of "Tennis" because that
person is a tennis player, it is not too unreasonable if the whole
page is interpreted as being tagged "Tennis" - after all, the page
does mention a tennis player, so does have an (albeit perhaps minor)
topic of "Tennis".
With rel-license scoping has potentially major legal ramifications.
Essentially it means that any rel=license link found needs to be
manually checked to determine exactly what the licence applies to.
And if one needs to manually inspect a page to determine its licence,
then rel=license is adding no value.
This is true,
I would prefer to use rel="copyright"
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/types.html#type-links
because rel="licence" is primarily used for CC licences.
But even so the problem still exists that the rel-copyright still only
applies to the entire document.
So *maybe* there is need for something more specific that can be
related to the object maybe a rel="rights" or something else new..?
No Im wrong hAudio *can* use rel="copyright"
http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-faq#Are_rel_attributes_and_linktypes_in_general_just_document_to_document
"Are "rel" attributes, and linktypes in general, just document to document?
The vast majority of the rel values defined in HTML4 are from a document
to a document. rel="stylesheet" is a bit of an exception, as it from an
HTML document to a style sheet, which is more like a set of styling
rules and instructions than a "document" in the classical sense.
Two more notable exceptions are rel="copyright" and rel="bookmark" which
describe the relationship from the current document to (potentially)
only part of a document. "
Proposal:
change rel="licence" to rel="copyright"
I would have proposed rev="copyright" but rev is depreciated in
Microformats (which is a shame in this case because it looks like
something hAudio needs)
Thanks
Martin McEvoy
Thanks
Martin McEvoy
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