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| − | == License-aware Search Applications == | + | == [[License-aware Search Applications]] == |
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| − | === Add license search to a major commercial search engine ===
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| − | Currently we have a [http://creativecommons.org/technology/search demonstration search] that works by telling AlltheWeb to limit results to pages that link to Creative Commons licenses. While useful, this is far from our vision of a metadata-aware search engine.
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| − | The first requirement for a Creative Commons license-aware search engine is that license metadata (RDF embedded in pages) must be indexed. It wouldn't be necessary to index arbitrary RDF initially -- indexing only Creative Commons license metadata would be a good first step along the path to a Semantic Web-enabled search engine.
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| − | Once you start indexing license metadata, you can do two obvious things with it:
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| − | Provide users with an interface to filter their results by license or license characteristc. The aforementioned AlltheWeb demonstration interface is an example of the latter.
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| − | Display license information in search results. This could be done even if a query does not involve a license filter. If you have license information for a result, display the license in proximity to the result.
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| − | As you index and understand more metadata, you'll be able to go beyond these basics, with enhanced format or domain-specific searches and richly annotated results.
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| − | We've started a benevolent cycle by making it painless and natural for people to publish quality metadata (automatically included in HTML generated for cut&paste publishing by our [http://creativecommons.org/license/ license selection application]). Continue the cycle by enhancing search with metadata -- providing stimulus for users and other applications to generate yet more and better metadata.
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| − | === CC search for content repository websites ===
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| − | eg improve http://flickr.com/creativecommons
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| − | could be done by outside developers in cases where web service api permits
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| − | === Write a custom Creative Commons license-aware search engine ===
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| − | '''1 implementation'''
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| − | You'd have to work at a commercial search engine to tackle the previous challenge. However, an individual or small team could build a search engine exclusively for Creative Commons-licensed content, much as several have been built exclusively for searching blogs.
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| − | Update: Prototype up at [http://search.creativecommons.org/ search.creativecommons.org]. Help improve this search engine at its [http://cctools.sourceforge.net/ sourceforge project].
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| − | ''TODO'' feature requests for cc/nutch
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| − | === [[Source Query]] ===
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| − | "Who remixed me?" as the new "Who linked me?" This is along the similar lines as trackbacks for blogs which are used to see who is sampling which blogs.
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| − | === Discovery tools ===
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| − | Add support for Creative Commons licensing to content discovery applications such [http://irate.sourceforge.net/ iRate] which help you find interesting media based upon your favorite playlists, friends choices, and what is popular.
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