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How does Europeana's own code match or categorise legacy www.europeana.eu/rights URIs, and how common were they?

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Europeana's corelib resolves rights URIs tolerantly: after lower-casing and https-to-http rewriting, even 'exact' mode is a substring test (to accept version or language suffixes), and loose mode matches short patterns and, by the code's own comment, malformed strings. A test fixture lists legacy europeana.eu/rights values in the millions (rr-f about 8.6 million) at an undated snapshot; this is a fixture, not a published statistic. Curator qualifications: Code read 2026-10-22; not run. sea rightsStatement.js and licensing-framework changelog (S1, S6) from producer reading. Limitations: Code read 2026-10-22; not run. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/europeana/corelib/blob/e25ca6ac024a93b5d2b05eb603f6306a3f73a121/corelib-definitions/src/main/java/eu/europeana/corelib/definitions/model/RightsOption.java",
      "note": "corelib RightsOption.java at e25ca6ac L218-251 (getValueByUrl); RightReusabilityCategorizerTest.java L577-583"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/europeana/sea/blob/fe66bb126bec1f75b9e09adfd05e6d20adaba680/packages/layers/base/utils/rightsStatement.js",
      "note": "corelib RightsOption.java at e25ca6ac L218-251 (getValueByUrl); RightReusabilityCategorizerTest.java L577-583"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/europeana/corelib/blob/e25ca6ac024a93b5d2b05eb603f6306a3f73a121/corelib-web/src/test/java/eu/europeana/corelib/web/model/rights/RightReusabilityCategorizerTest.java",
      "note": "corelib RightsOption.java at e25ca6ac L218-251 (getValueByUrl); RightReusabilityCategorizerTest.java L577-583"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Europeana's corelib resolves rights URIs tolerantly: after lower-casing and https-to-http rewriting, even 'exact' mode is a substring test (to accept version or language suffixes), and loose mode matches short patterns and, by the code's own comment, malformed strings. A test fixture lists legacy europeana.eu/rights values in the millions (rr-f about 8.6 million) at an undated snapshot; this is a fixture, not a published statistic. · locator: corelib RightsOption.java at e25ca6ac L218-251 (getValueByUrl); RightReusabilityCategorizerTest.java L577-583 source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

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