Rights Metadata Recommendation

Vocabularies

Prefix	URI
dc	http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
dcterms	http://purl.org/dc/terms/
edm	http://www.europeana.eu/schemas/edm/
pcdmrts	http://pcdm.org/rights#
premis	http://www.loc.gov/premis/rdf/v1#

Minimal Rights Metadata

For maximum interoperability, we recommend two rights properties:

edm:rights containing a URI designating the primary rights statement of the resource
dcterms:rightsHolder containing a URI for the rights holder

Property	Description	Values
edm:rights	Rights statement	URIs from Creative Commons, RightsStatements.org, other other vocabularies, minting new URIs as needed
dcterms:rightsHolder	Rights holder	URIs from common vocabularies

Recommended Additional Properties

For a richer description of the rights status, we recommend the following properties to represent textual descriptions, links to explicit copyright information, and rights overrides (temporary licenses, embargoes, etc.):

Property	Description	Values
dc:rights	Rights description	Free text description of rights, such as administrative contact information, a description of the specific license terms, or other rights-related restrictions.
marcrel:cpc	Copyright claimant (rights holder before rights expired)	URIs from common vocabularies (e.g., LCNAF, VIAF, etc.)
premis:hasCopyrightStatus	Copyright status	URIs from PREMIS CopyrightStatus
premis:hasCopyrightJurisdiction	Copyright jurisdiction	Country/jurisdiction codes from common vocabularies (e.g., ISO 3166)
pcdmrts:rightsOverride	Rights statement override (temporary rights statement that overrides edm:rights, such as a temporary embargo or license)	URIs from Creative Commons, RightsStatements.org, other other vocabularies, minting new URIs as needed
pcdmrts:rightsOverrideExpiration	Rights statement override expiration (date when status reverts to base edm:rights statement)	Date in a standardized format (e.g., W3C DTF profile of ISO 8601)

Relevant Vocabulary Documentation

Archives Hub: http://data.archiveshub.ac.uk/def/
Creative Commons: http://creativecommons.org/ns
DC/DC Terms: http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/
Europeana: https://github.com/europeana/corelib/blob/master/corelib-edm-definitions/src/main/resources/eu/rdf/edm.owl
Samvera Rights: https://github.com/samvera/hydra-head/wiki/Embargos-and-Leases
MARC Relators: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators.html
PCDM Rights (pcdmrts): http://pcdm.org/rights#
PREMIS: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/premis.html

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Vocabularies

Minimal Rights Metadata

Recommended Additional Properties

Relevant Vocabulary Documentation

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