ISO/TR 22038:2020

TECHNICAL ISO/TR
REPORT 22038
First edition
2020-06
Information and documentation —
Description and presentation of rights
information
Information et documentation — Description et présentation de
l'information relative aux droits
Reference number
©
ISO 2020
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Contents Page
Foreword .iv
Introduction .v
1 Scope . 1
2 Normative references . 1
3 Terms and definitions . 1
4 Rights information . 2
4.1 General consideration . 2
4.2 Use of community supported expression . 2
4.3 International consideration . 2
4.4 Rights information elements . 2
5 Categorization of service pages . 3
5.1 Purpose of this categorization . 3
5.2 Top page . 3
5.3 Search page . 3
5.4 Browsing page . 3
5.5 Resource information page . 3
5.6 Resource download page . 3
5.7 Resource presentation page . 3
5.8 Information page . 3
5.9 Authentication page . 3
5.10 Permission form page . 4
6 Presentation of rights information in the service pages . 4
6.1 General consideration . 4
6.2 Top page . 4
6.3 Search page . 4
6.4 Browsing page . 4
6.5 Resource information page . 4
6.6 Resource download page . 4
6.7 Resource presentation page . 4
6.8 Rights information page . 5
Annex A (informative) Community supported expressions . 6
Bibliography . 8
Foreword
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This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 46, Information and documentation,
Subcommittee SC 9, Identification and description.
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Introduction
Many libraries, museums and archives are digitizing their collections to provide them for the public
through the network. In addition, there are many services on the network that supply similar digital
resources to the public. These digital collections are invaluable sources for cultural activities. But the
digital resources provided by these collections may have some restriction for the usage. Intellectual
rights and terms of use concerning the provided resource have to be respected.
Most digital collections present such rights information somewhere in their services. In many cases,
however, it is hard for ordinary users to find correct information. There are many ways to present rights
information. This document provides a guideline to present rights information in an easily accessible
way. It will ease the work involved in seeking proper rights information and promote usage of digital
collections.
This document is intended to provide guidelines for digital collection service developers to design
systems that can effectively present rights information to the end-users. Digital collection providers
(e.g. libraries, museums, etc.) can refer to this document when they commission their service systems.
This document does not provide the guidelines for the entire design of a service system. References to
search page or browsing page, for example, does not mean that they are recommended. Only the parts
concerning the presentation of rights information are the recommendations of this document.
TECHNICAL REPORT ISO/TR 22038:2020(E)
Information and documentation — Description and
presentation of rights information
1 Scope
This document provides an effective presentation of rights information in digital collections to end-
users. Digital collection, in this document, is mainly focused on digital collections in libraries, museums,
archives or other organizations that offer similar resources to their patrons.
This document deals with the human-readable aspects of the rights presentation. Technical aspects
of the storage and management of rights expression information, such as, metadata schemas,
interoperability of machine-readable expressions and user interfaces are out of scope of this document.
2 Normative references
There are no normative references in this document.
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.
ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:
— ISO Online browsing platform: available at https:// www .iso .org/ obp
— IEC Electropedia: available at http:// www .electropedia .org/
3.1
digital collection
collection formed by a collection process on existing data and data sets where the collected data is in
digital form (ISO 5127) and/or its service
3.2
digital resource
resource transmitted from the digital collection (3.1) through the service
3.3
rights information
intellectual property rights and related access and/or usage rights information concerning resources
3.4
service page
unit of information sent from a digital collection (3.1) to a user
Note 1 to entry: Usually, a service page is intended to be displayed on the screen at the same time, but it may
comprise larger amounts of information that cannot fit a display device.
3.5
underlying work
original resource from which the digital resource (3.2) is derived
Note 1 to entry: A digital resource may have more than one underlying work.
EXAMPLE 1 When the digital resource is a digitized representation of a painting, the original painting is the
underlying work.
EXAMPLE 2 When the digital resource is a digitized image of a book, both the book as the physical object and
the contents as the abstract work are the underlying works.
EXAMPLE 3 When the digital resource is a digital motion picture which presents a painting with some related
essays and some background music, the painting, the essays and the music are underlying works.
4 Rights information
4.1 General consideration
Rights information to be presented includes the rights concerning the conditions of access to and/or use
of the digital resource. Copyright information under the appropriate jurisdiction, agreements between
stakeholders and/or social customs is typically included.
Rights information should clearly state what users are allowed to do with the provided resource. There
may be statements regarding the underlying works if necessary. Rights information may be included on
the same page or may be a link to a separate information page.
4.2 Use of community supported expression
The adoption of a widely used format to express rights information is highly recommended. Examples
of the most common community-supported formats for digita
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