Preservation Metadata Report: Rights in the PREMIS Data Model Published
Rights in the PREMIS Data Model: A Report for the Library of Congress
by Karen Coyle
32 pages; PDF.
From the preface:
The Preservation Metadata: Implementation Strategies (PREMIS) Working Group developed the Data Dictionary for Preservation Metadata, which is a specification containing a set of “core” preservation metadata elements that has broad applicability within the digital preservation community. It constructed a data model that defined entities involved in the preservation process and their relationships. One of the important entities in this data model is rights statements, which specify terms and conditions for using the objects in a preservation repository. The PREMIS Working Group chose to consider only rights required for preservation activities in scope for its work, rather than rights for access. Because of the ambiguity of the laws concerning intellectual property rights and the complexity in the roles that institutions play in digital preservation in relation to access, it was difficult for the Working Group to thoroughly cover all information needed about rights to preserve in the data dictionary…In this study Karen Coyle reviews the landscape of digital rights, analyzes various preservation rights scenarios and the sorts of preservation actions that digital repositories might take, relates copyright law to preservation actions, and provides recommendations for revision where the data dictionary needs expansion.
Source: Library of Congress