what is definitive url for the creative commons xml namespace

Hi,

When working with creative commons metadata and svg files, I
keep seeing
the xml namspace url pointing to http://web.resource.org/c
c/ (i.e
xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/c
c/"). Was this the original location
for Creative Commons information? Will this always be the
url or are
there plans to transition this to the creativecommons.org
domain name space?

I'm using inkscape to create my test svg files. It uses the
web.resource.org/cc/ base url for the xmlns, and for
pointing to the
various licenses' permissions, prohibitions, and
requirements. However
for the actual license (i.e. Attribution Share Alike,
Attribution No
Commercial) it uses http://creativec
ommons.org/licenses/ as the base
url. Although I have seen some old svg files on
OpenClipArt.org which
use the http://web.resource.org/c
c/ path to point to license info.

When parsing the rdf markup, should I just test for both url
paths in
all cases, or is the http://web.resource.org/c
c/ the definitive namespace?

Thanks,

Roan

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On Mon, 2006-07-17 at 00:40 -0400, Roan Horning wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> When working with creative commons metadata and svg
files, I keep seeing
> the xml namspace url pointing to http://web.resource.org/c
c/ (i.e
> xmlns:cc="http://web.resource.org/c
c/"). Was this the original location
> for Creative Commons information? Will this always be
the url or are
> there plans to transition this to the
creativecommons.org domain name space?

The ns will eventually be moved to to http://creativecommons
.org/ns# (or
similar), but ...

> I'm using inkscape to create my test svg files. It
uses the
> web.resource.org/cc/ base url for the xmlns, and for
pointing to the
> various licenses' permissions, prohibitions, and
requirements. However
> for the actual license (i.e. Attribution Share Alike,
Attribution No
> Commercial) it uses http://creativec
ommons.org/licenses/ as the base
> url. Although I have seen some old svg files on
OpenClipArt.org which
> use the http://web.resource.org/c
c/ path to point to license info.
> 
> When parsing the rdf markup, should I just test for
both url paths in
> all cases, or is the http://web.resource.org/c
c/ the definitive namespace?

The ns is used for CC vocabulary items.  Licenses are just
URIs.  If you
want to think of http://creativec
ommons.org/licenses/ as the "base" of
CC license URIs (which is not going to change) you can, but
a license
URI could be anything and has no relation to the ns used for
the
vocabulary.

If you're wondering whether you should be looking for
something like
web.resource.org/cc/by/2.5/ or
creativecommons.org/licenses/Permits the
answer is no.

-- 
  
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/User:Mike_Linksvayer

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