Your copyright metadata on a GRDDL
As of yesterday GRDDL, noticeable “griddle”, is a World Wide Web Consortium recommendation. GRDDL allows digit to exposit in a accepted artefact how to transpose aggregation between assorted XML formats. The acronym stands for “Gleaning Resource Descriptions from Dialects of Languages”, which describes just what the accepted facilitates.
This is essential to Creative Commons because crossways science, education, and the scheme there are lots of formats utilised to exposit copyrightable entireness (and in science, such more than that) and related rights. These allow HTML (and within HTML, accumulation scarred up as different microformats and RDFa at least) and mountain of XML-based formats, whatever substantially designed, others not so much.
GRDDL makes it easier to impact accumulation from different formats in an interoperable fashion, when that is appropriate. There’s no responsibility to admittance accumulation via GRDDL, but hopefully the plain possibleness to do so occasionally module attain grouping study interoperability requirements early than they would hit otherwise, facilitating modify costs for collaboration crossways expanse and time in added way.
Congratulations to everyone involved in nonindustrial GRDDL, including Ben Adida, CC’s W3C representative.