Little "s" Semantic: Exploring Metadata About the Web

When someone selects a Creative Commons license they are provided with a chunk of HTML to insert in their webpage which marks it as licensed. Embedded in that HTML is metadata about their work (if provided) and about the license. MozCC 2 is an extension for Firefox 2 which builds a local metadata store as a user browses and provides a visual indication about the license of a page, an image, or other web document. This talk will discuss the challenges of extracting metadata, and the ways in which we're trying to help users visualize information about the web.

Nathan Yergler, Senior Software Engineer, Creative Commons Nathan R. Yergler is a Senior Software Engineer at Creative Commons. He leads the ccPublisher project and is responsible for the web services and license engine infrastructure. Before joining Creative Commons Nathan served on the Canterbury School faculty where he developed the Python programming curriculum and web-based tools for improving teacher to student communication. Nathan holds a BS in Computer Science from Purdue University and is a member of Upsilon Pi Epsilon.