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Rights metadata for personal archives
Standards for digital rights management
Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS)
MODS is an XML schema which was developed as a bibliographic element set based on MARC fields, but may be used for a variety of purposes, including descriptive metadata for archive material; it is richer than simple Dublin Core. See http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/mods-outline.html for a full outline of elements and attributes used in MODS, and http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-userguide.html for more detailed user guidelines. The MODS elements which relate to rights are:
<accessCondition> Information about restrictions imposed on access to a resource. It can simply contain a free text description of any rights associated with a digital object or collection; alternatively, it can be made more specific using the TYPE attribute, although there is no controlled list of values defined for this attribute. The two examples provided in the MODS user guidelines divide the use of the element into access and use: "restrictionOnAccess" and "useAndReproduction".
<originInfo><copyrightDate> Used to record the date of copyright.
