discussion of the Creative Commons Metadata work

[Andy Powell <a.powell AT ukoln.ac.uk>]

I'm not sure if this has been announced here or not yet, but just in
case...

Note that DCMI have now approved two new metadata properties -
dcterms:license and dcterms:rightsHolder - as follows:

Term Name:      license
URI:            http://purl.org/dc/terms/license
Label:          License
Definition:     A legal document giving official permission to do
                something with the resource.
Comment:        Recommended best practice is to identify the license using
                a URI. Examples of such licenses can be found at
                http://creativecommons.org/licenses/.
Type of Term:   element-refinement
Refines:        http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/rights
Status:         conforming
Date Issued:    2004-06-14

Term Name:      rightsHolder
URI:            http://purl.org/dc/terms/rightsHolder
Label:          Rights Holder
Definition:     A person or organization owning or managing rights over
                the resource.
Comment:        Recommended best practice is to use the URI or name of the
                Rights Holder to indicate the entity.
Type of Term:   element
Status:         conforming
Date Issued:    2004-06-14

http://dublincore.org/documents/dcmi-terms/

Andy
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