View source for CcRdf for Python

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ccRdf is a set of Python classes which allow developers to easily parse and manipulate Creative Commons licensing metadata. ccRdf was developed as part of the [[CcValidator]] project and was formerly known as ccLicense.py.  ccRdf supports parsing, manipulating and emitting license metadata in RDF format.  Notes regarding early ccRdf development can be found in [[User:NathanYergler|Nathan Yergler's]] [http://yergler.net/blog/category/projects/ccrdf/ blog archive].

The latest independently released version is 0.4.5, but the Subversion trunk is stable.

== Downloading and Installation ==

ccRdf is distributed as a [http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/PythonEggs Python Egg].  If you have [http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall easy_install] available, you can install it and it's dependency ([http://rdflib.net rdflib]) using the following command line:

  $ easy_install ccrdf 

Easy_install will download the latest release and resolve the dependencies if needed.  You may need to run the command with root privileges if you do not have write-permission to the <code>site-packages</code> directory.

== Resources ==

* [http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/software/ccrdf/doc API documentation] (generated via [http://epydoc.sourceforge.net/ epydoc])
* [http://www.python.org/pypi/ccrdf Python Package Index (PyPI) information]
* [http://mirrors.creativecommons.org/software/ccrdf/download Download]
* [http://svn.berlios.de/wsvn/cctools/wrappers/python/ccrdf/ Source tree]