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METS News and AnnouncementsDraft Rights Declaration Schema is Ready for ReviewThe METS Editorial Board sees the need for a simple Rights schema that the METS community could use while the more comprehensive Rights Expression Language (REL) schemas such as XrML, ODRL, and others are being developed, and debated. The focus of the simple Rights schema is to simply declare or document some basic facts about the digital collections being created and/or included in institutional digital repositories. To that end, this draft Rights Declaration schema is offered to the METS community for review, comment, and discussion. The schema is attached as well as some sample instance documents designed to illustrate how the schema could be used. As background and in explanation of the rationale for the Board's approach, the following schemas and similar efforts were reviewed closely: the ODRL REL, the XrML REL, the federated digital rights requirements as crafted by Mairead Martin from U Tenn, Grace Agnew from Rutgers, and others, and the efforts by the Digital Library Federation's Electronic Resource Management Initiative (DLF ERMI) to document terms related to licensed electronic resources. Following the comparison of approaches and metadata elements, this rights declaration schema focuses upon:
This Rights Declaration schema has 3 main elements:
The Rights Schema is available at www.loc.gov/standards/rights/METSRights.xsd Also available are the following example documents:
Please direct any comments or questions about the draft schema to the METS listserv. |
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