ISP 4: ISCN right metadata specification

ISP: 4
Title: ISCN right metadata specification
Status: Final
Created: 2020-04-06
Edited: 2020-06-24

Motivation

ISCN right metadata is dealing with the intellectual property rights granted by law. It states the holder of the right, the type of the right, valid period and territory and the terms of the right, and it also needs to handle multiple rights. This proposal is going to define the schema for such metadata.

Proposal

All information about the rights is stored in an array.

Rights

Property	Occurs	Expected Type	Description
context	1	URL	The context should be an URL to the schema definition, to be confirmed when this proposal is in the final stage.
rights	1	Array of RightInfo	An array of RightInfo.

RightInfo

The RightInfo describes the intellectual property rights granted by law, and it records that who is the holder, where and when the right applies and the detail of the terms of the right.

Property	Occurs	Expected Type	Description
holder	1	Linked Data to Entity	A linked data to the Entity that describes the right holder.
type	1	String	A type of the right. For example, if the digit content uses a creative commons license, then the type should be "license".
terms	1	Link to String	A linked data links a plain text of a legal document of the right.
period	0~1	TimePeriod	A period in which the right is valid. If no from is provided, the start time should be the time of creation or modification, or if no to is provided, the end time should follow the law by different territories.
territory	0~1	String	A territory where the right applied, it recommends using ISO 3166-1.

TimePeriod

Property	Occurs	Expected Type	Description
from	0~1	DateTime	The start time of the period, it recommends using ISO 8601.
to	0~1	DateTime	The end time of the period, it recommends using ISO 8601.