Rights Information in requiredStatement

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This section describes how Creative Commons and rightsstatements.org URIs are leveraged to generate rights information in the requiredStatement property of UT Libraries IIIF manifests.

Rights Statements

Rights Statements are dereferenced from the value of mods:accessCondition/@xlink:href. From the corresponding rdf, the label, definition, and description are retrieved. The corresponding SVGs are “guessed” at following the standard pattern for SVGs.

On serialization, the SVG is used in an img wrapped in an a that points at the human readable webpage at rightsstatements.org. The label is wrapped in an a that points at the human readable webpage at rightsstatements.org followed by the definition.

The description is not currently used.

In various viewers, the rights information is rendered like so:

Rights in Mirador
Rights in UV

Creative Commons