  This white paper is the product of a joint Digital Public Library of America
(DPLA)-Europeana working group organized to develop minimum rights statement
metadata standards for organizations that contribute to DPLA and Europeana.
This white paper deals specifically with the technical infrastructure of a
common namespace (rightsstatements.org) that hosts the rights statements to be
used by (at minimum) the DPLA and Europeana. These recommendations for a common
technical infrastructure for rights statements outline a simple, flexible, and
extensible framework to host the rights statements at rightsstatements.org.
This white paper specifically outlines the management of rights statements as
linked open data. The rights statements are published according to Best
Practices for Publishing RDF Vocabularies. They are encoded into
dereferenceable URIs, express further information encoded in RDF, and link to
existing vocabularies and standards. The rights statements adhere to
expressions of existing rights vocabularies. Furthermore the paper reviews the
publication and implementation to make the rights statements available through
human-readable web pages augmented with machine-readable formats.
