ownershipaffiliation
Ownershipaffiliation is a metadata concept used to describe both who owns an asset and which organizations it is associated with. It combines ownership information (legal rights, title, and control) with organizational affiliation data (affiliations of the owner or creators, sponsorships, partnerships). This dual framing supports accountability, licensing, and governance across records and systems.
In practice, ownershipaffiliation may be stored as a single field or as related data within a metadata
Applications span digital assets, research outputs, and physical assets tracked in asset management. For scholarly works,
Challenges include handling multiple owners, changing affiliations, cross-border rights, privacy considerations, and inconsistencies across systems. Maintaining
Best practices involve using controlled vocabularies, aligning with standard metadata schemas, and clearly separating ownership from