Thursday, November 13, 2003

CC technology challenges. In an effort to grow the technology around the Semantic Web, Creative Commons launched a series of Technology Challenges. Nathan Yergler has posted a very cool answer to one of those challenges. MozCC is “an extension for Mozilla-based browsers, including Mozilla Firebird, Mozilla and Netscape, which scans pages for RDF, specifically embedded Creative Commons licenses. When a license is detected, mozCC does two things. First, it scans for license information pertaining to the current web page and places relevant icons on the status bar. Second, it enables a button on the toolbar which allows you to explore the parsed licensing metadata.” Nathan has also developed a Creative Commons RDF License Validator. [Lessig Blog] 12:41:01 PM