[DPLAsteering] Fwd: Announcing the launch of RightsStatements.org

[Stephen Hedges]

Passing along some news from DPLA.
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From: Digital Public Library of America <info at dp.la>
Date: Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 10:32 AM
Subject: Announcing the launch of RightsStatements.org
To: Stephen <stephen at oplin.ohio.gov>


** Announcing the launch of RightsStatements.org
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In May 2015, the International Rights Statements Working Group released two
white papers with our recommendations for establishing standardized rights
statements for describing copyright and reuse status of digital cultural
heritage materials, and the enabling technical infrastructure for those
statements.   After working for nearly a year to implement the
recommendations of the white papers, the Digital Public Library of America (
http://us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e1490d1305c4b651f3ad0ace4&id=f808b124c7&e=835ed9a482)
and Europeana (
http://us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e1490d1305c4b651f3ad0ace4&id=c45b45572d&e=835ed9a482)
are proud to announce the launch of RightsStatements.org (
http://us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e1490d1305c4b651f3ad0ace4&id=6e50ca1722&e=835ed9a482)
.

In partnership with Creative Commons (
http://us4.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=e1490d1305c4b651f3ad0ace4&id=8f1cf05532&e=835ed9a482)
, Kennisland (
http://us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e1490d1305c4b651f3ad0ace4&id=9436f84025&e=835ed9a482)
and key stakeholders of the DPLA and Europeana networks,
RightsStatements.org is a collaborative approach to rights statements that
can be used to communicate the copyright status of cultural objects.  As
aggregators of cultural heritage materials, this work is key to both DPLA
and Europeana, as we both seek to share clear and accurate information
about copyright status with our users.

In this cooperative effort, we have built a flexible system of rights
statements that allows our contributing cultural heritage partners, who
hold the digital works, to clearly communicate to users what they can or
cannot do with the objects they discover.  Use of the statements also means
that use of the data can become more standardized across the world.

There are three categories of rights statements: Statements for works that
are in copyright, statements for works that are not in copyright, and
statements for works where the copyright status is unclear. The statements
provide users with easy to understand, high-level information about the
copyright and re-use status of digital objects.

The rights statements have been designed with both human users and machine
users, such as search engines, in mind, and are published as a linked data
vocabulary. Each rights statement has its own Uniform Resource Identifier
(URI).

The Digital Public Library of America plans to begin implementing these
unique rights statements with our partners in the summer of 2016, and those
efforts are expected to continue into 2017.  Europeana will integrate the
new rights statements into its existing Licensing Framework in the second
half of 2016 after having consulted with their contributing institutions.

The work of the International Rights Statements Working Group has been
funded in large part by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.  The
working group wishes to acknowledge and thank the Knight Foundation for
support of this important work.  Thanks also goes to the European
Commission as the funder the Europeana DSI project, which facilitated this
work.

Europeana

Europeana (
http://us4.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=e1490d1305c4b651f3ad0ace4&id=af4b3df3fd&e=835ed9a482)
is Europe's digital platform for cultural heritage, collecting and
providing online access to tens of millions of digitized items from
libraries, archives, audiovisual collections and museums across Europe. It
opens up access to over 50 million digital records from over 3,500 heritage
organizations in 35 countries. These collections represent great thematic,
language and media variety, from books, photos and paintings to television
broadcasts and 3D objects. Europeana encourages and promotes the creative
re-use of these vast cultural heritage collections in education, research,
tourism and the creative industries.

DPLA

The Digital Public Library of America (
http://us4.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e1490d1305c4b651f3ad0ace4&id=f6b2942359&e=835ed9a482)
strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written
word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the
efforts and data of science. Since launching in April 2013, it has
aggregated more than 13 million items from 1,900 institutions. The DPLA is
a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit.


PRESS CONTACT:

DPLA
info at dp.la (mailto:info at dp.la)

Europeana
Imogen Greenhaigh
+44 207 4127113
Imogen.Greenhaigh at europeana.eu (mailto:Imogen.Greenhaigh at europeana.eu)
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