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Configuring Creative Commons License

This enables The following configurations are for the Creative Commons license step in the submission process of either the JSP or XML User Interface (JSP UI or XML UI). Submitters are given an opportunity to select a Creative Common license to accompany the item. Creative Commons licenses govern the use of the content. For further details, refer to the Creative Commons website at at http://creativecommons.org .

Creative Commons licensing is enabled as one step of the configurable submission process, and therefore optionally available and may be configured for any given collection that has a defined submission sequence, or be part of the "default" submission process. This process is described in the "Customizing and Configuring the Submission User Interface" section of this manual. There is a Creative Commons step already defined (step 5), but it is commented out, so enabling Creative Commons licensing is typically just a matter of uncommenting the CC License step.

For the JSP UI, Creative Commons licensing is effected by opening an Iframe to the Creative Commons site and capturing the selection result in several bitstreams, but the XML UI utilizes a more flexible web service. By default, when a license is selected in the interface, the URI for the license is stored in the 'dc.rights.uri' metadata field for the Item, captured slightly differently in each UI:

• In the JSPUI, an "iframe" is opened to the Creative Commons site. When a Creative Commons license is selected from that site, information about the CC license is stored in a series of internal bitstreams:
  • The URL of the CC License is stored in a bitstream named "license_url" in the CC-LICENSE bundle
  • The full (HTML) text of the CC License is stored in a bitstream named "license_txt" in the CC-LICENSE bundle
  • The RDF version of the CC License is stored in a bitstream named "license_rdf" in the CC-LICENSE bundle
• In the XMLUI, the Create Commons REST API is utilized. This allows the XMLUI to also store metadata references to the selected CC license, while also storing the CC License as a bitstream. In the XMLUI, the following CC License information is captured:
  • The URL of the CC License is stored in the "dc.rights.uri" metadata field (or whatever field is configured in the "cc.license.uri" setting below)
  • The name of the CC License is stored in the "dc.rights" metadata field (or whatever field is configured in the "cc.license.name" setting below). This only occurs if "cc.submit.setname=true" (default value)
  • The RDF version of the CC License is stored in a bitstream named "license_rdf" in the CC-LICENSE bundle (as long as "cc.submit.addbitstream=true", which is the default value)

The following configurations (in dspace.cfg) relate to the XMLUI Creative Commons license process ONLY and a representation of the license text is stored in a license bundle. In addition, the following properties in [dspace]/config/dspace.cfg may be customized for use:

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