On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 4:43 PM, George Stanley Kozak <[email protected]> wrote: > I was asked today if the Creative Commons License can be added after an item > was submitted and in the system (sort of, after the fact). > > My gut feeling is “no”, but I wanted to check first. Also, can batch > records have a Creative Commons License applied? (again, I am thinking > “no”).
Hi George, to answer that, we must first find out what makes a DSpace item a CC item. To find that out, I submitted a new item on demo.dspace.org. Now let's look at both metadata [1] and license bitstreams [2]: [1] http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/handle/10673/13012?show=full [2] http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/metadata/handle/10673/13012/mets.xml [3] http://demo.dspace.org/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10673/13012/license_rdf As you can see, metadata contains two fields: dc.rights:Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States dc.rights.uri:http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/us/ Also notice that "*" is a language, which seems unusual, because usually there's either a language code, an empty string or a NULL value. This might or might not matter. Secondly, we can see the METS file pointing to a single bitstream [3]. There's nothing specific to the item there, it's the same for all items with the same type of CC license. Please note, that this bitstream is in the LICENSE bundle (you can upload to this bundle from the web interface, just select it from the dropdown menu). So to answer your questions: * yes, an existing item can be made CC * yes, batch import can create CC items Regards, ~~helix84 Compulsory reading: DSpace Mailing List Etiquette https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech List Etiquette: https://wiki.duraspace.org/display/DSPACE/Mailing+List+Etiquette
