SAA 2017: Session 504 The Rights Stuff: Encouraging Appropriate Reuse with Standardized Rights Statements | SNAP Section

"Kelcy (who served as the moderator) began the session by observing that there are 26,000 unique rights statements in a sample of 1.3 million records in the Digital Public Library of American (DPLA). They argue that this illustrates the need for standardized rights statements. However, according to Kelcy, 'having to figure [it] out can be a real challenge…there were more words in the rights field than any other field in the metadata,' including the description field. Unfortunately, while the DPLA has a lot of text in its rights fields, the information it contains is not always clear."