OER licence

Approaches to associating licence information with open content
There are a number of ways to include a licenses with your material. See also the more general discussion of describing OER.

Licence terms in metadata

 * Part of IMS_CP
 * Part of metadata description

Licence terms as part of the content

 * Image or text as part of your cover page/ asset
 * encoded into your MS Office output using the free Creative Commons plugin for MSOffice produced my Microsoft Research

License terms in RSS
"Currently we have several different elements to choose from when placing our CC license: Different feed formats seem to prefer different options here, but its not uncommon to find them mixed up, all of which are valid XML. There is also possible confusion with Copyright, for which there are two elements: Feeds may sometimes put licensing information in these, which is technically not correct as license != copyright. But it happens" Scott Wilson, email exchange about aggregating license information Aug 2009
 * http://creativecommons.org/ns#license license
 * http://web.resource.org/cc/ license
 * http://backend.userland.com/creativeCommonsRssModule> license
 * RSS 2.0 copyright
 * DC rights

For more information about how an aggregator might process license information please see Scott's write up of this

Licence terms in webpages

 * open Attribute
 * rdfa
 * google rich snippets