Interesting question. Among the VertNet data publishers (85 institutions, 195 collections so far), none of them track or publish this information at the level of individual records, but rather as information at the level of the metadata for entire collections. Using Darwin Core Archives, this information would be in the EML metadata document.
The interesting part is that the collection metadata is disjunct from the primary data unless someone specifically does something to remedy the situation. No occurrence record knows what its rightsHolder and accessRights are. So, when they go into the wild mixed with records from other institutions, that information is effectively lost. It would be better if it was not lost. One way to do this in conventional publishing using Darwin Core Archives would be to generate the record-level metadata from the collection-level metadata during the publishing process. That's what we are doing in VertNet as we transition from DiGIR providers to Darwin Core Archives.
On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 11:53 AM, Steve Baskauf steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu wrote:
The terms dcterms:rightsHolder and dcterms:accessRights are "imported" from Dublin Core into the Darwin Core record-level vocabulary. I am interested in them for two reasons: there are several issues with the use of those terms as RDF predicates, and they differ from the terms suggested for use in rights management in the draft Audubon Core vocabulary. What I am wondering is how widely are they actually used in databases by our community? If you maintain a database, do you use them?
Steve
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