You can now add 'real' creative commons licensing in knotes blogs
07-March-2006
We're great fans of the Creative Commons system for denoting open content licensing. In educational settings especially, the simplicity of CC licensing can cut through a lot of silly obstacles to sharing.
We've now made it very easy to add Creative Commons licensing to knotes weblog content. There are new links in the Manage sidebar for managing a CC license (you need manage role on a weblog to see that sidebar).
If no license has yet been chosen, you see a link to "Add Creative Commons License". Clicking that takes you into a form delivered by the developer API at Creative Commons, which guides you through the choice. Click 'proceed' when done there to have the CC API contact knotes with the information about your license. The license you have chosen will then be rendered into all knotes views, both as machine-readable RDF and human-readable badge and link to the deed (see the screenshot for an example)
Embedding the RDF - "properly" adding the license to your content - is vital to having the legal import of your choice of deed made "ert". For instance, google will note the embedded RDF and thus will include hits to your content when people search specifically for creative-commons deeded content in google's advanced search.
If you have already applied a CC license, the "Add Creative Commons License" link in the Manage sidebar is replaced by links to change or retract the license.
We hope this helps users to express their intentions to share content. Please let us know of any other features that would help in smoothing the sharing of content, especially in institutional settings.
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