Rights

The rights element will be available for use from 7 December 2011 with the introduction of RIF-CS v1.3.0.

rightsStatement  |  licence  |  accessRights  |  Transitioning from RIF-CS v1.2.0

Meaning and purpose

The rights element is a wrapper element that contains descriptions of rights, licences and access rights for a collection, in both text and URI formats. 

Rights, licence and access rights information is displayed prominently on Research Data Australia to support researchers in reuse of research collections.

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rightsStatement

A statement about the intellectual property rights held in over a collection, a legal document giving official permission to do something with a collection, or a statement about access rights. Example: Copyright, John M. Smith, 2011

Note: this element is based on the standards listed below, which allow the rightsStatement to also include licence and access right information, therefore this element can contain all of that information or be limited to intellectual property rights if the data provider wishes to split their information.

Populate this element from:

• DCterms.rightsStatement
• AGRkMS Rights Statement
• ISO 2146 rights
• DC CAP Rights defined by The Dublin Core Metadata Element Set, v1.1, http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/
• DataCite 2.1 Rights
• RIF-CS v1.2.0 description type="rights"—information about rights held in and over the collection such as copyright, licenses and other intellectual property rights. The rightsStatement element is intended to accommodate data providers that have rights information based on definitions in other metadata standards, as well as those with discrete copyright statements.

URI:

A URI containing one or more of a rights statement, licence or access rights and constraints relating to the collection.

Examples:

(adapted from existing Research Data Australia content)

Copyright statements

• Copyright in source documents of collection content is held by the content providers - for further details see collection homepage. AustLII claims copyright in its value-adding to source documents, elements of which include hypertext mark-up and alternative citations.
• Copyright (c) 2008-2010. C. Michael Bull, Flinders University, South Australia.
  

Combination statement

• The owner / manager of this data collection may provide access to this data collection by negotiation. You could be required to indicate your intended use of the data, to meet any costs associated with providing you with the data, and to fulfill other terms and conditions as determined by the data owner / manager. Use of the data may also be subject to legal, ethical and commercial restrictions, requiring further permission from other individuals or groups, including ethics committees, project steering groups, and research participants.

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licence

Text of a legal document giving official permission to do something with a collection.

Populate this element from:

• DCterms.License;
• DCterms.LicenceDocument
  
• Data.gov.au License (URI)
• ANZLIC MD_Metadata.identificationInfo>.resourceConstraints>MD_LegalConstraints.accessConstraints>MD_RestrictionCode='license'

URI:

A URI pointing to the licence relating to the collection.

Examples:

(adapted from existing Research Data Australia content)

• CSIRO makes the images in the Stanley Fowler Collection available on the following conditions. You may download the online images from this Collection for your own personal non-commercial use, provided that you use the following acknowledgement with the downloaded images: [title of image][date of image], created by Stanley Fowler, CSIRO. If you require higher resolution images or wish to use the images for any commercial application, further conditions may apply.

• The Belfield family give this data freely to benefit world research into climate. This material must never be used for anybody's personal gain.

• This data is freely available to any individual for any purpose.
  URI: http:www.ebi.ac.uk/Information/termsofuse.html

• URI: http://n2o.org.au/knb/style/skins/default/index_terms.jsp

• This data set conforms to the PICCCBY Attribution License
  URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

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accessRights

Description of access rights and constraints, including who may access, when access may occur (including any embargo), and uses that may be made of the collection. Restrictions may be based on security, privacy or other policies.

Populate this element from:

• DCterms.accessRights
• AGRkMS Rights Type
• DC CAP Access Rights
• MODS 3.4 accessCondition
• ANZLIC 1.0 useLimitation, accessConstraints, useConstraints, otherConstraints, MD_SecurityConstraints, handlingDescription
• RIF-CS v1.2.0 description type="accessRights"—information about access rights to the collection, including access restrictions based on privacy, security, or other policies.

URI:

A URI pointing to access rights and constraints relating to the collection.

Examples:

(adapted from existing Research Data Australia content)

• Access is restricted to the project participants until six months after the completion of the project.

• Available from 11.30am AEST 9 February 2010

• Not for release before 7.30pm AEST 13 May 1997

• Individual end-users are free to access, copy and print materials for their own use in accordance with copyright law. For web spidering and other automated collection, access restrictions are set out in the robot exclusion file located at http://www.austlii.edu.au/robots.txt

• Signed access form required
  URI: http://www.paradisec.org.au/downloads.html

• Limited information about items in the BCTB collections, and small images, are available publicly through the search tool on the Research Query web page. Researchers who would like to seek direct access to samples and full-size images can find details of the procedure to follow at
  URI: https://abctb.org.au/abctbNew2/researchers.aspx

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RIF-CS best practice guidelines

Which version should I use?

In RIF-CS v1.2.0, rights and access rights were provided using the description element and specifying type="rights" or type="accessRights".

Existing feeds containing rights in the RIF-CS v1.2.0 format remain valid and do not need to be changed in any way.

Manually created records or new feeds being established should use the new RIF-CS v1.3.0 elements.

ANDS recommends use of the new rights elements if possible, to:

• permit use of URLs to point to or identify rights information
• support search filtering by licence type as a guide to re-use potential
• allow description of licences and display of associated logos (if available) in Research Data Australia. AusGOAL licences are being adopted widely for public sector data and this practice is expected to be adopted for much research data. More information

Transitioning from RIF-CS v1.2.0 to v1.3.0 for rights information for collections

Note: this is optional, not required.

Each element description above includes guidance on sources of information for populating the element.

The mapping table below is provided for those who wish to transition to the new elements.

RIF-CS v1.2.0	Maps to	RIF-CS v1.3.0
description type="rights	Maps to	rightsStatement
description type="accessRights"	Maps to	accessRights
wherever described	Maps to	licence

 

 

 

 

RIF-CS examples

(under construction)

Date	Change history
21 Nov 2011	First web publication. Element introduced as part of RIF-CS v1.3.0 with effect from 7 Dec 2011

 

 

 

 

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