[OAI-implementers] Two questions: Rights and Identifiers

[David Heath]

Hi,

I wonder if you can help with some clarifications on these two issues.

Rights:
   am I correct in reading the specs that the <rights> record in the 
<about> section of an OAI-PMH GetRecord response describes the copyright 
license of the *metadata record* and not the *resource* ?

   A close reading of the detailed example at:

http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-rights.htm#A1

suggests that this is so, but I just wanted to check I'd understood 
correctly.

Identifiers:
  Is there any requirement or expectation that the <identifier> given in 
the <header> is the same as a dc:identifier value? In other words, is 
the following legitimate:

<header>
   <identifier>oai:an.oa.org:zxy123</identifier>
   <datestamp>2004-08-08</datestamp>
</header>

<metadata>
   <oai_dc:dc
    xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/"
    xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/
    http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">

    <!-- Is this OK? -->
<dc:identifier>http://www.an.oa.org/elephant_HOWTO.html</dc:identifier>

     <dc:title>Using elephants to crack peanuts in a factory </dc:title>
     <dc:creator>Nutcase, A</dc:creator>
     <dc:subject>Elephants</dc:subject>
     <dc:description>With the increasing technical sophistication of
well-trained elephants it is becoming practical to consider
their use in factory settings.</dc:description>

     <dc:date>2004-04-01</dc:date>
   </oai_dc:dc>
</metadata>

Thanks

David
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