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RDF in XHTML - Use Cases

11 April 2005


Dublin Core


Creative Commons

Current HTML documents designate a Creative Commons license through linking. RDF is included in an HTML comment. In most cases, the document being licensed is the current HTML page, and the expression of such a license is a single RDF triple:

"" <http://web.resource.org/cc/License> <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa-2.0/>

Note that most Creative Commons metadata also includes additional information in Dublin Core form, which can be handled by the previous use case.

In some cases, individual elements within a page may be licensed under different Creative Commons licenses, or, more importantly, individually declared (e.g. a page with a series of images). In those cases, the RDF subjects should be designated as the individual images, PDF files, etc...


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