What is the relationship of the copyrightMD to other schemas?
copyrightMD is designed to express copyright metadata within an XML environment, and therefore serves as an extension schema for the Metadata and Encoding Transmission Standard (METS). The CDL Rights Management Group did an analysis of the functional requirements related to copyright metadata and as part of the analysis did a review of existing metadata schemas. The results of the analysis and review indicated that no existing metadata schema included all necessary data elements and, in fact, most merely contained broad buckets for the collecting and recording of copyright metadata with no functionality for machine actionability. For more information, see Assessment of Common Rights Metadata Encoding Schemes and Gap Analysis.
