This document summarizes a presentation on rights technical design given at the DPLA Fest 2015. It discusses the common namespace and class used for rights statements. It also describes the URI design for rights statements and how they are designed to be both machine-readable and human-readable. Finally, it lists the technical working group members who worked on rights statement design.

1. Rights Technical Design
@DPLAFest 2015
Karen Estlund
kestlund@uoregon.edu
April 18, 2015

2. Common Namespace
https://rightsstatements.org

3. Class for Rights Statements
dcterms:rightsStatement
A statement about the intellectual property rights
(IPR) held in or over a Resource, a legal document
giving official permission to do something with a
resource, or a statement about access rights.
http://purl.org/dc/terms/RightsStatement

4. URI Design
http://rightsstatements.org/rs/
ic-donor-restrictions/1.0/US/
Jurisdiction is optional

5. Machine & Human Read-able
rsdotorg:ic a dcterms:RightsStatement ;
skos:prefLabel "In Copyright"@en ;
skos:closeMatch
<http://www.europeana.eu/rights/rr-f/> ;
skos:definition "This digital object is protected by
copyright and/or related rights. Use of this digital
object is subject to the licensing conditions set by the
rightsholder and/or organization giving access to
it."@en ;
skos:scopeNote "This rights statement is applicable
when users have free (as in gratis), direct and full
access to the digitised object. Access is granted subject
to the licensing conditions described the on the data
provider's website."@en ;
skos:relatedMatch premiscopy:cpr ;
dcterms:hasVersion "1.0" ;
dc:creator "Digital Public Library of America and
Europeana Rights Working Group" ;
dc:identifier "ic" .

6. Object in DPLA

7. Object in Local Implementation using LOD -
Machine Readable View
University of California San Diego Library Example

8. Object in Local Implementation using LOD
edm:rights
dc:rights

9. dc:rights
edm:rights
Object in Local Implementation

10. Technical Working Group Members
• Valentine Charles ‐ Europeana, Data R&D Coordinator
• Esmé Cowles ‐ University of California San Diego Library, Lead Developer
• Karen Estlund ‐ University of Oregon Libraries, Head, Digital Scholarship
Center
• Antoine Isaac – Europeana, R&D Manager
• Tom Johnson – DPLA, Metadata & Platform Architect
• Matt Lee – Creative Commons
• Mark A. Matienzo – DPLA, Director of Technology
• Patrick Peiffer – Bibliothèque Nationale de Luxembourg
• Richard J. Urban – Florida State University College of Communication &
Information, Assistant Professor
• Maarten Zeinstra – Kennisland, advisor copyright and technology