Date:         Tue, 10 Jul 2007 16:48:39 -0400
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From:         "Rebecca S. Guenther" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject:      Re: creative commons licnese encoded in METSRights?
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As I understand it, a creative commons license is assigned a URI, e.g.:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
is the license for "Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported"
(and going to that URI tells you what that means).

In the descriptive metadata, in MODS (or in any other descriptive metadata
that has a place to put access conditions or rights information using a
URI) you could use the accessCondition element with the xlink attribute to
point to that URI, which explains what the applicable license is. I'm not
sure how to do it in METS rightsMD (other than making a little schema with
perhaps one element?).
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Rebecca

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Brian Tingle wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Has anyone tried to encode a creative commons license in the METSRights
> schema; or maybe in MODS somehow?  How did you do it?
> 
> -- Brian
>