Rights
Meaning & purpose
The Rights element is a wrapper for RightsStatement, Licence and AccessRights child elements for a collection or service, in both text and URI formats.
- Rights statement refers to information about the rights (such as copyright or moral rights) held in a collection or service.
- Licence refers to a legal statement giving official permission to do something with a collection or service.
- Access rights refers to rights of access and any access constraints, including who may access and when access may occur, for a collection or service.
Use in Research Data Australia
Rights information is displayed prominently in Research Data Australia to support researchers in reuse of research collections.
Best practice
Wherever possible, provide rights statement, licence and access rights information as separate elements within the Rights wrapper.
See Rights statement, Licence and Access rights for detailed information on these elements.
XML encoding example
Example showing preferred use of rights element with rights statement, licence and access rights provided as separate elements
XML
<rights>
<rightsStatement rightsUri="http://unisa.edu.au/About-UniSA/Governance-and-management-structure/Copyright-at-UniSA/">Copyright 2014, The University of South Australia</rightsStatement>
<licence type="CC-BY" rightsUri="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/"></licence>
<accessRights type="Open" rightsUri="http://w3.unisa.edu.au/policies/policies/resrch/res20.asp">In accordance with the UniSA Open Access policy></accessRights>
</rights>
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