Hi,
What is the best way to programmatically get the attribution text for creative commons images? I was told that the category containing the license would contain the attribution text, but found many images dont follow that process. Some images, for example, Max_Planck.png have some attribution requirements buried inside the description - but that is hard to extract and automate. Any suggestions?
Thanks Anand
2010/2/25 Anand Ramanathan rcanand@gmail.com:
Hi,
What is the best way to programmatically get the attribution text for creative commons images? I was told that the category containing the license would contain the attribution text, but found many images dont follow that process. Some images, for example, Max_Planck.png have some attribution requirements buried inside the description - but that is hard to extract and automate. Any suggestions?
The software has no concept of attribution text, so you can't grab it from the API as such. Questions about policies regarding attribution placement are best addressed to commons-l.
Roan Kattouw (Catrope)
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