M.4-10 The operators document the legal attributes of the published documents in their resp. metadata to make them accessible for machine-reading.

• Short Title: M.4-10 The operators document the legal attributes of the published documents in their resp. metadata to make them accessible for machine-reading.
• Source Documnent: DINI Certificate for Open Access Publication Services 2019
• Source Document Link: https://doi.org/10.18452/21759
• Publishing Organisation: DINI Working Group "Electronic Publishing"
• Date of Publication: 2020-08-21
• Topic: Metadata richness/ ingest/ submission, Machine-actionability
• Keywords: legal, rights, license, agreement, machine-readability
• Addressed Stakeholders: data service providers
• Full Text: Information on the conditions under which a document may be used by third parties is stored with each published document. Machine-readable information is in particular provided via the OAI interface. Additionally, machine-readable information on the rights situation is provided via the web frontend, e.g. as meta-tags in the HTML header or RDFa elements in the HTML body. Standardized URLs are used to mark the legal provisions. For do-cuments under a free license, the resp. license’s URL is listed in the OAI metadata. For other documents, URLs of the RightsStatements vocabulary are used.