The Future of DiscoverEd
by nathan on 2011-04-11
The DiscoverEd project was started in 2008 to explore how structured data could be applied to...
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See all authorsCC + GSoC: Integration is the Word
by nathan on 2011-03-21
Creative Commons is once again participating in the Google Summer of Code, an opportunity for...
Supporting tools for decentralized metadata
by nathan on 2011-03-16
Over the past couple years Creative Commons has built DiscoverEd, a prototype search and...
Follow your nose for translations
by nathan on 2011-02-07
One of our goals is to continue to make the licenses more useful as self-describing resources....
Merging old and new CC REL schemas
by nathan on 2011-02-04
When the RDF schema that would become CC REL was first developed, it was published at...
Three Layers of a CC License
by nathan on 2011-01-10
Included in last week's redesign is an updated Licenses page, describing the CC licenses and...
License identifier on the Deeds
by nathan on 2011-01-07
Yesterday we launched a refresh of the site design for creativecommons.org. Included in the...
License Discovery in Feeds
by nathan on 2011-01-04
Right before the winter break I came across Scott Wilson's blog post on a CETIS blog about...
Google News and Source Citation
by nathan on 2010-12-10
Last month the Google News team announced two new meta tags publishers can use to mark up their...
Type Of: Educational (an idea)
by nathan on 2010-12-03
I spent most of yesterday in a meeting discussing ways to make search better for open...
Well Covered
by nathan on 2010-10-05
When we rolled out Hudson for CC code last month, I already knew that I wanted to have test...
Find and Reuse Images: Painless Attribution
by nathan on 2010-10-04
Finding CC licensed images and using them properly is something many people seem to struggle...
October 2010 Tech Update
by nathan on 2010-10-01
Inspired by the Wikimedia Foundation, I wanted to give a brief update on the past month's...
Upcoming changes to CC Network
by nathan on 2010-09-24
In about a week (Monday, October 4, 2010) we'll be rolling out an update to CC Network. This...
Curation and Structured Data for educational resources
by nathan on 2010-09-02
I spent most of last week in Alexandria, Virginia, talking about DiscoverEd (and hearing others...
«Semantic Copyright» and CC REL
by nathan on 2010-09-02
On Monday Safe Creative announced a new project, Semantic Copyright. The project includes an...
Named Graph support lands in DiscoverEd
by nathan on 2010-09-01
Earlier this week we updated the master branch on the DiscoverEd project. While this "release"...
Draft metadata for Public Domain Mark
by nathan on 2010-08-19
As announced on the CC blog earlier this month, we're working on a new tool to complement CC0,...
Welcome Hudson to Creative Commons
by nathan on 2010-08-12
We've been working over the past year on improving our tooling and processes for the CC website...
Thoughts on Installing SMW "Applications"
by nathan on 2010-02-02
I've posted a follow up to my previous notes on Semantic MediaWiki as an application platform....
Search and Discovery for OER
by nathan on 2010-01-14
Last summer the Open Society Institute generously provided funding for CC to host a meeting...
MediaWiki, the application platform
by nathan on 2010-01-08
As noted on the CC weblog and elsewhere, AcaWiki launched back in October. I'm much later noting...
Caching deeds for peak performance
by nathan on 2010-01-06
As Chris mentioned, he's been working on improving the license chooser, among other things...
CC @ Mozilla Service Week
by nathan on 2009-09-09
Next week is Mozilla Service Week and Creative Commons is participating by hosting a week long...
git-svn with svn:externals
by nathan on 2009-07-21
We've been slowly but surely moving projects from Subversion to git, but there are still large...
License Engine path changes
by nathan on 2009-07-21
We just pushed out a resolution to Issue 381, updating the path to the license engine. The...
Updates to CC Network OpenID Provider
by nathan on 2009-04-13
We received a couple bug reports over the weekend about the CC Network OpenID provider. Users...
Enumeration descriptions in CC Web Services
by nathan on 2009-04-02
We had a request come in from a developer using the CC web services for better contextual...
CC Technology Summit 3: Turin, Italy
by nathan on 2009-03-29
As you may have see on the blog or one of the mailing lists, we've announced the third CC...
CC Technology Summit Video
by nathan on 2009-01-16
In December we held our second CC Technology Summit at MIT in Cambridge, MA. I think the day...
CC Network Feature Update
by nathan on 2008-10-21
We just pushed a new feature set to CC Network; most of these are OpenID related, and I'll try...
Introducing Commoner
by nathan on 2008-10-21
Last week we launched the Creative Commons Network as part of our annual campaign. The Network...
Schema Migration with Django
by nathan on 2008-10-21
Django is an amazing web framework; we built a lot of features in a very short period of time...
Issue Tracking at code.creativecommons.org
by nathan on 2008-09-05
Continuing the trend started when we moved our source repository, today we're rolling out issue...
Juggling Metadata at CC
by nathan on 2008-07-03
It's the day before a long weekend and inspiration hits — RDFa and ccREL are exactly like juggling!
Stand-up Meeting 2004-04-01
by nathan on 2008-04-03
The Tech Team at Creative Commons has recently replaced our weekly one-on-ones (myself with each...
Version Control Changes
by nathan on 2008-04-01
I alluded to it in my last post and wanted to provide some more details and context on the...
Destination: Sanity
by nathan on 2008-03-27
Last week Kinkade asked me for a brief overview of how the license engine, web services and...
Enhanced Metadata Graduates from Labs
by nathan on 2007-06-21
Early this morning we launched some functionality on the main "license...
CC: The Clear Choice for BotNets Everywhere
by nathan on 2007-05-17
I was working this morning and noticed that "#cc":http://wiki.creativecommons.org/IRC, our IRC...
VMware Workstation 6 released
by nathan on 2007-05-10
I've been a fan of "VMware":http://vmware.com for years. Both at my previous job and this one,...
StuffIt 10 Considered Harmful
by nathan on 2007-05-01
Mac OS X users of "ccPublisher":http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CcPublisher have long been...
Berlios.de back online
by nathan on 2007-04-23
After the downtime we "reported":/archives/old-tech-blog/entries/cc-tools-berlios-unavailable/...
CC Tools @ Berlios Unavailable
by nathan on 2007-04-23
Back in November, 2005, SourceForge wasn't looking so hot: no Subversion support, despite...
wiki.creativecommons.org skin available
by nathan on 2007-04-23
The skin for Creative Commons' "wiki":http://wiki.creativecommons.org is now available from...
Summer of Code Projects
by nathan on 2007-04-12
We're very happy to have five students working on Creative Commons and Science Commons projects...
WordPress MU v. Lyceum
by nathan on 2007-04-12
We're preparing to launch "hosted blogging":http://wiki.creativecommons.org/CCi_Blogs service...
The CC Tech Blog
by nathan on 2007-04-11
Welcome to the Creative Commons Tech Blog. The CC Tech Blog is a new blog from Creative Commons,...
wpLicense 0.7.6
by nathan on 2007-04-11
Today I released wpLicense 0.7.6 ( download see update below). It's a minor bug fix, but one...