On 14 October 2011 09:10, Neil Kandalgaonkar <neilk(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
I didn't ask, but perhaps I could find out.
It's an interesting idea,
although to some degree it's once again postponing the necessary IMO
work of putting licenses in the database. I mean, Commons regards
correct licensing as one of the most important activities, and yet
licenses aren't a real object in the system. It's very difficult to
gather even basic information about how licenses are used on Commons.
Anyway as far as I can tell, microformats are dead. However, HTML5
microdata is on its way.
http://www.w3.org/TR/microdata/
A Google employee wrote that spec, but that's not a guarantee it will
actually work with anything, or that Google Image Search has any idea he
wrote it. ;)
Eurgh. We don't really want to get into the
RDFa/microformats/microdata holy wars... :-)
Frankly, given the movement's mission and commitments, using RDFa
seems most sensible. Though I agree with Neil that having licences as
a first-level object would be nice-to-have, the templates give us the
ability to achieve proper machine-readable licence-tagging right now
(well, technically they'd apply to the page not the image, but Google
could easily code around that, or in a pinch we could have an
extension that extracted the RDFa attributes and applied them to the
IMG and A elements).
Yours,
--
James D. Forrester
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