Using Creative Commons Metadata

Creative Commons Metadata can be embedded in a variety of formats. Here are details on specific formats. (If your favorite format isn't here please add it to this list).

See our metadata section for theory and advanced practice.

HTML

See our guide on how to tag works.

RSS

For RSS 1.0, use the Creative Commons module. For RSS 2.0, use the creativeCommons module.

Syndic8 tracks RSS feeds that are available under a Creative Commons license.

Audio (MP3 and Ogg)

See our guidelines for tagging non-web content and specifics concerning tagging MP3 and Ogg files.

XMP (PDF, image formats)

Use current Adobe applications to embed Creative Commons metadata in PDF and other XMP-supported file types.

SMIL (Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language)

Use the CreativeCommons SMIL Module.

Other Formats

We are working on procedures to tag more video, music, image and text file formats and will profile each one in this space as they are developed.