1. A Database Called The Web Nathan R. Yergler Creative Commons

2. First Things

4. RDFa

5. Using them to drive your applications

7. SQL Databases

8. That is, the titular “database” is a metaphor

9. And now I've used titular in a conference talk

10. share, reuse, and remix— legally

13. <a href=” http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ ” rel=”license”> Attribution 3.0 Unported </a>

15. Allows commercial use?

16. Are derivative works allowed?

17. How do we attribute the work?

18. Semantic Web (a gross oversimplification in 120 seconds)

19. Down with silos!

20. RDF

21. (subject, predicate, object)

24. Object is a URI or Literal

25. 2002

27. <!-- metadata -->

29. Opaque to humans

30. Easy to screw up

31. Overly verbose

32. 2009

35. CC Rights Expression Language

37. Don't Repeat Yourself (DRY)

38. Visual Locality

39. Remix Friendliness

41. Uses a few attributes (rel, rev, about, href, property, resource) to encode RDF triples in [X]HTML

42. Extensible for emerging applications

43. rel=”license”

45. We encode this in the generated HTML

46. Our deeds display this information when we can detect it

49. Where should I link to? >>> import rdfadict >>> dessert = 'http://www.flickr.com/photos/nathan_y/3637818168/' >>> p = rdfadict.RdfaParser() >>> p.parse_url(dessert)[dessert]['http://creativecommons.org/ns#attributionURL'] ['http://www.flickr.com/photos/nathan_y/']

52. A place creators to collect work references

53. A platform for digital copyright registry exploration

54. Built on ccREL

55. Free Software: AGPL 3, available from code.creativecommons.org

58. Network + License Badges

59. Reciprocal Ownership Metadata “ Identity” Work

61. A “Registry” <span id=&quot;#nathan&quot; about=&quot;#nathan&quot; rel=&quot;sioc:member_of&quot; property=&quot;sioc:name&quot; resource=&quot;http://labs.creativecommons.org/~nathan/info/labs.html&quot;>Nathan Yergler</span> <ul> <li><a about=&quot;#nathan&quot; rel=&quot;sioc:owner_of&quot; href=&quot;http://labs.creativecommons.org/~nathan/info/db-called-web.html&quot;> A Database Called The Web</a></li> </li> </ul>

65. What about you?

67. We could insert the RDFa with Javascript but that severely increases demand on consumers

69. Vocab mix-n-match is fine: use established vocabularies whenever possible (DC, etc).

70. If you're a market leader (or hope to be), commit to publishing a minimum set of information.

71. Think about your URIs – you're making a commitment to maintain them.

73. You're probably making the information available anyway

74. It builds an open web

75. It adds value for your site

77. They're exploring ways to make this easier for “webmasters”

79. Search Monkey lets you build “info bars”

80. BOSS lets you query for presence of metadata

81. Nathan R. Yergler Chief Technology Officer Creative Commons [email_address] tivecommons.org @nyergler {twitter | identi.ca} http://wiki.creativecommons.org/A_Database_Called_The_Web