Hydra rights metadata

Owned by Bill Branan
Jun 16, 2017
5 min read

Having initially thought that we would use a METS-based rights metadata schema, the team has decided to use something simpler. This is based on an Access Rights and Use Rights report written by Liz Gushee at the University of Virginia. You can contact her at emg2j [at] virginia [dot] edu.

Modified after a Hydra meeting 2 Feb 2010 to move LDAP groups etc into the <machine> section and to allow 'type' in <human>.  Further modified 27 Aug 2010 to make explicit the 'create' type in the access section.

<rightsMetadata>

	<!--
		This will be blank most of the time, but we need a place
		to store copyright information when we know it.
		If something is in the public domain, assert that here, using tools
		at http://creativecommons.org/choose/publicdomain-2
	-->

        <copyright>

		<human>This work is in the Public Domain. To view a copy of the public domain certification, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 171 Second Street, Suite 300, San Francisco, California, 94105, USA.</human>

                <!--  or it could be a straight copyright statement -->

                <human>(c)2009 The Hydra Project</human>

                <!--  It could be typed...  -->

                <human type="someSpecialisedType">Blah Blah</human>
                <human type="aDifferentType">More blah</human>

		<machine><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/publicdomain/88x31.png" /></a><br />This work is in the <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/publicdomain/">Public Domain</a>.</machine>

	</copyright>

	<!-- FeSL / XACML / ORDL / ... -->

	<access type="discover">
             <!-- access to the object splash page -->

		<human>
                        <!-- Some human readable text as above (may be typed).  Ditto for all <human> below.  -->
                </human>

		<machine>

			<!--
				Machine-readable access is a reference to a policy
				Right now it isn't enforced. Once FeSL policies are represented
				as fedora objects, this will reference one or more fedora PIDs
                        -->

			<policy>hydra-policy:4502</policy>

                       <!--
                                Or this section may contain references to LDAP (or other) entries allowed access
                                - either individual users or groups
			-->

                        <person>acsrg</person>
                        <person>acscla</person>
                        <group>staff</group>
                        <group>academicVisitors</group>

		</machine>

	</access>

        <access type="read">
                <!-- download permission -->
                <human />
                <machine>
                    <!-- persons or groups who can download or reference to a policy that determines this -->
                </machine>
        </access>

        <access type="publish">
                <human />
                <machine />
        </access>


        <access type="create">
                <!-- etc -->
        </access>

        <access type="etc">
                <!-- etc -->
        </access>

	<use>

	        <!-- Where possible, use should reference external licenses like creative commons -->


		<human>You are free to re-distribute this object, but you cannot change it or sell it. </human>

		<machine><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/88x31.png" /></a><br />This <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" href="http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Sound" rel="dc:type">work</span> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License</a>.</machine>

	</use>

        <!-- 
        Embargo metadata is intended to provide a machine-readable date on which an embargo should be revisited; 
        the date field can be typed locally to provide an indication of what should be done.
        It is not intended that the machine date necessarily trigger an access rights change without human intervention.
        Checking and actioning embargo date information will need to be implemented locally according to need.
         -->
        <embargo>
                <human>Stanford only until 10 November 2012</human>
                <machine>
                        <date type="release">2010-11-10</date>
                </machine>
        </embargo>

</rightsMetadata>