SVG
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| File Type Information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Supports embedding license URL: | supports_license_url::yes | |
| Supports embedding web statement: | supports_web_statement::yes | |
| Supports embedding more permissions: | supports_more_permissions::yes | |
| Metadata Location: | [[Metadata location::{{{metadata_location}}}]] | (unknown) }} | |
| Metadata Format: | [[Metadata format::{{{metadata_format}}}]] | (unknown) }} | |
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) SVG is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics and graphical applications in XML. It supports placing metadata for the whole document and per object.
Contents
Implementations
- Inkscape, an open source drawing tool
- Open Clip Art Library, a public domain collection of user-submitted clip art
- SVG::Metadata by Bryce Harrington is a PERL module for including metadata inside an SVG (used by Open Clip Art Library.
Examples
Code
- Here is the code that is in Inkscape's SVN repository for making the License and Metadata Dialogs possible. Please use them as examples for coding your own metadata and license selectors for use in SVG:
- Here is the discussion page at the Open Clip Art Library wiki about SVG Metadata.
Sample
This is how to include metadata inside of an SVG file using CC metadata, licensing and dublin core.
<svg>
<metadata>
<rdf:RDF
xmlns="http://creativecommons.org/ns#"
xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#"
>
<Work rdf:about="http://www.openclipart.org/incoming/2004/04/contents/barcode_ean13.svg">
<dc:title>EAN-13 Bar Code</dc:title>
<dc:description>A Bar Code: EAN-13.</dc:description>
<dc:subject>barcode, bar code, bar, code, UPC, EAN, EAN-13, universal product code, universal, product, code, product code</dc:subject>
<dc:publisher><Agent rdf:about="http://www.openclipart.org/"><dc:title>Open Clip Art Project</dc:title></Agent></dc:publisher>
<dc:creator><Agent rdf:about="http://www.theworths.org/richard/"><dc:title>Richard D. Worth</dc:title></Agent></dc:creator>
<dc:date>2004-04-27</dc:date>
<dc:format>image/svg+xml</dc:format>
<dc:type>http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/StillImage</dc:type>
<license rdf:resource="http://web.resource.org/cc/PublicDomain" />
</Work>
</rdf:RDF>
</metadata>
<!-- The rest of the image goes here -->
</svg>
