rightsstatements.org Building a set of internationally interoperable rights statements for digital cultural heritage. PAUL KELLER & MAARTEN ZEINSTRA, 4th EUROPEANA LICENSING WORKSHOP

87,000 different statements about copyright & reuse

13 rightsstatements

• Establish a suite of internationally interoperable, machine readable rights statements that can be used by cultural heritage institutions to communicate the copyright and reuse status of digitized cultural works

• These are intended to work alongside the Creative Commons licenses and Public Domain tools, to cover situation where the CC licenses and tools cannot be used.

• In the end we are aiming to establish and international standard for communicating the copyright and re-use situation that will be run by an independent entity.

Purpose of the project

• In Copyright (InC)

• In Copyright EU Orphan Work (InCOWEU)

• In Copyright Rightsholder(s) Unlocatable or Unidentifiable (InCRUU)

• In Copyright Educational Use Permitted (InCEDU)

• In Copyright NonCommercial Use Permitted (InCNC)

Rights Statements for Works that are in copyright

• Out Of Copyright NonCommercial Use Only (OOC-NC)

• No Copyright Contractual Restrictions (NoC-CR)

• No Copyright Other Known Legal Restrictions (NoC-OKLR)

• No Copyright United States (NoC-US)

Rights Statements for works that are not in copyright

• No Known Copyright (NKC)

• Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)

Other Rights Statements

• The rights statements are intended to communicate the copyright and reuse status of a digital object (not only the underlying cultural work).

• The rightsstatements.org working group strongly supports the position that digitization of PD works should not create additional exclusive rights

• Where this is the case we recommend that such rights be waived via the CC0 Public Domain Dedication

Additional considerations

• https://github.com/rightsstatements/

• Build for Linked Data • cc, dc, dcterms, foaf, edm, owl, dcmitype, odrl, p3p, premiscopy, rdfs, schema,

skos

• Content negotiation • Human Readable (HTML5/RDFa)

• JSON-LD

• Turtle RDF

• One file to rule them all (on GitHub)

Statements are at 1.0, Technology is at 5.0

Internationalisation in the core data structure

All texts of the statements are machine readable and coupled to different metadata standards.License of the image

• Now-December – start development

• Launch Early – 2016

• Adoption Europeana and DPLA in the course of 2016 (DPLA first)

Next steps

Thank you Rightsstatements.org is a joint initiative by DPLA and Europeana supported by the European Commission and the Knight Foundation

Paul Keller pk@kl.nl / Maarten Zeinstra mz@kl.nl

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