Standards
Creative Commons
- Sub-categories
- Licensing Rights
- Started
- 2001
- Founded by
- Lawrence Lessig
- Current URL
- https://creativecommons.org/
- Goals
- Develop a set of free copyright licenses that reduce barriers to creativity, yet also specify conditions for acceptable use (Creative Commons, 2017a).
The Data Use Ontology
- Sub-categories
- Rights Metadata Ontologies
- Started
- 2017
- Founded by
- Global Alliance for Genomics and Health
- Current URL
- https://github.com/EBISPOT/DUO
- Goals
- Develop an ontology to facilitate the sharing of genomics research data (Courtot, 2017).
Linked Content Coalition
- Sub-categories
- Rights Metadata Ontologies
- Started
- 2010
- Founded by
- European Publisher’s Council
- Current URL
- http://www.editeur.org/21/ONIX-PL
- Goals
- Promote digital data reuse and more efficiently communicate copyright information for digital objects, focusing their efforts on the interoperability of identifiers and rights metadata (Linked Content Coalition, 2018). To develop tools and prototypes, which can be implemented into systems.
The Neurona Data Protection Ontology
- Sub-categories
- Rights Metadata Ontologies
- Started
- 2008
- Founded by
- Current URL
- <N/A>
- Goals
- Develop a non-domain-specific ontology for data protection compliance within the Spanish legal system. Torralba, Sergi, N. Casellas, Juan-Emilio Nieto, A. Merono, Antoni, Roig, Mario Reyes, and Pompeu Casanovas. “The Neurona Ontology - A Data Protection Compliance Ontology,” 2009.
ONIX-PL
- Sub-categories
- Licensing Metadata Ontologies
- Started
- 2008
- Founded by
- Digital Library Federation’s Electronic Resource Management Initiative (ERMI) and EDItEUR/NISO (Editeur, 2009a).
- Current URL
- http://www.editeur.org/21/ONIX-PL/
- Goals
- Create an XML structure to document publication licensing agreements, originally developed for publication commerce purposes (Editeur, 2009a).
Open Data Commons
- Sub-categories
- Licensing Rights
- Started
- 2007
- Founded by
- Open Knowledge Foundation
- Current URL
- https://opendatacommons.org/
- Goals
- Develop a set of free standardized licenses for data and databases that are interoperable with the Creative Commons licenses.
Open Digital Rights Language
- Sub-categories
- Rights Metadata Ontologies
- Started
- 2001
- Founded by
- W3C Permissions and Obligations Expression Working Group
- Current URL
- https://www.w3.org/community/odrl/
- Goals
- The development of a Digital Rights Management (DRM) language for the purposes of standardizing the communication of rights information for digital resources (About ODRL, 2018).
The Open Government License
- Sub-categories
- Licensing Rights
- Started
- 2010
- Founded by
- UK National Archive
- Current URL
- http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
- Goals
- Develop a free standardized license for public sector information within the UK, compatible with the Creative Commons and Open Data attribution licenses (The National Archives, n.d.).
Rights DeclarationMD Extension Schema
- Sub-categories
- Rights Metadata Ontologies
- Started
- 2001
- Founded by
- Digital Library Foundation for digital library objects
- Current URL
- https://www.loc.gov/standards/rights/METSRights.xsd
- Goals
- Create rights-based extension of METS (Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard), called the RightsDeclarationMD Extension Schema.
RightsStatements.org
- Sub-categories
- Rights
- Started
- 2015
- Founded by
- DPLA (Digital Public Library of America) and Europeana
- Current URL
- http://rightsstatements.org/en/
- Goals
- Develop a set of standardized rights statements as a means to communicate the rights status for works in which the party displaying the information object may encounter legal or factual uncertainty about the specifics of the copyright information and usage (International Rights Statements Working Group, 2015).
W3C Permissions and Obligations Expression
- Sub-categories
- Rights Licensing Metadata Ontologies
- Started
- 2016
- Founded by
- W3C
- Current URL
- https://www.w3.org/2016/poe/charter
- Goals
- Create a new semantic information model for expressing permissions, obligations, rights statements, and content licensing (W3C, 2016). As an initiative that allows for the expression of more complex and business-specific obligations, the initiative seeks to address different business needs than those addressed by Creative Commons.
- Status
- Working Group Closed
Additional Standards with a Rights Entity
- Categories for the Description of Works of Art (CDWA) Lite
- CopyrightMD, Extension for use with the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS)
- Dublin Core
- Learning Object Metadata (LOM)
- Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)
- Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (Premis)
- Public Broadcasting Metadata Dictionary (PBCore)
- Visual Resources Association (VRA) Core