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Title:         Decision on proposal for dcterms:accessRights
Shepherd:      Stuart Sutton
Identifier:    http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/2003/2003-01.accessRights.shtml
Date:          2003-02-15
Description:   The decision documented here refers to a proposal
               considered at the Usage Board meeting of October 2002
               in Florence.  This particular decision is part of a cluster of
               decisions documented at
               http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/#Decision-2003-01.

Proposal text: http://dublincore.org/usage/meetings/2002/10/accessRights.shtml

Decision: Accept (with modified Definition and Comment)

Note: This decision merges two proposals, accessRights and
securityClassification, on the basis that:

--      there appeared to be significant overlap between the two
        proposals, and
--      protective markings can be indicated using the access rights
        qualifier with an associated vocabulary encoding scheme.

Approved text - beginning
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    URI:           http://purl.org/dc/terms/accessRights
    Namespace:     http://purl.org/dc/terms/
    Name:          accessRights
    Label:         Access Rights
    Definition:    Information about who can access the
                   resource or an indication of its security status.
    Comment:       Access Rights may include information
                   regarding access or restrictions based on privacy, 
                   security or other regulations.
    Type of term:  http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/principles/#element-refinement
    Refines:       http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/rights
    Status:        http://dublincore.org/usage/documents/process/#conforming
    Date issued:   2003-02-15
    Decision:      http://dublincore.org/usage/decisions/#Decision-2003-01
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Approved text - end