Include license metadata in RSS feeds

pafcu · Post by **pafcu** » January 6th, 2010, 3:32 am

Hi,

Currently the RSS feeds seem to have a <copyright> element which states that the content is in the public domain. This information is, however, only understandable to humans. Automated software like web crawlers do not understand the meaning of this information. Therefore, it would be nice if some machine readable license information could be added, as described at: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/RSS_2.0

In your case this means that
<creativeCommons:license>http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain</creativeCommons:license>
should be added to each item in the feed.

I'm not sure how flexible your publishing platform is, and how easy it is to implement this, but it would increase the visibility of LibriVox when searching for free content on the internet.

Post by **hugh** » January 6th, 2010, 6:17 am

Looking into it ... thanks!

tis · Post by **tis** » January 18th, 2010, 8:00 pm

Thanks pafcu. This should now be in place.