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METADATA FOR RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
OF GOVERNMENT INFORMATION

CENDI Copyright Working Group Meeting
Government Printing Office
Washington, D.C.

References for Futher Information

Rights Management Legal Aspects

CENDI Frequently Asked Questions About Copyright
http://cendi.dtic.mil/publications/04-8copyright.html

Project RoMEO (Rights MEtadata for Open archiving) http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/ls/disresearch/romeo/index.html.
See Project Romeo Surveys:

1. Rights issues facing OAI Data Providers
2. IPR issues for Service Providers

"The Intellectual Property Rights Issues Facing Self-archiving: Key Findings of the RoMEO Project"
D-Lib Sep 03 http://www.dlib.org/dlib/september03/gadd/09gadd.html
See the Section: Rights metadata and metadata rights solution.

Metadata

"Metadata for Web Resources: How Metadata Works on the Web"
Martin Dillon
http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/dillon_paper.html

"A Dozen Primers on Standards, Computers in Libraries," February 2004
http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/feb04/primers.shtml.
One-page primers on today's most important standards: ARK, DOI, METS, MODS, NCIP, OAI-PMH, ONIX, OpenURL, RDF, RSS, Shibboleth, and SRW-SRU.

"Mixed Content and Mixed Metadata: Information Discovery in a Messy World"
Caroline R. Arms and William Y. Arms.
Final draft of a chapter from Metadata in Practice, edited by Diane Hillmann and Elaine Westbrooks
ALA Editions, 2004.
http://www.cs.cornell.edu/wya/papers/ALA-2003.php
"There are good reasons why different metadata formats are used for different categories of resources.”

"Metadata and Encoding Transmission Standard (METS) Overview & Tutorial"
Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/standards/mets/METSOverview.html

Digital Rights Management

"The Technology of Rights: Digital Rights Management," 2003
Karen Coyle
http://www.kcoyle.net/drm_basics1.html

"Integrating Content Management with Digital Rights Management: Imperatives and Opportunities for Digital Content Lifecycles"
Bill Rosenblatt and Gail Dykstra
Giantsteps Media Technology Strategies, May 2003
http://www.xrml.org/reference/CM-DRMwhitepaper.pdf

"Digital Rights Management (DRM) Architectures"
Renato Iannella
D-Lib Magazine, June 2001, Volume 7 Number 6
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june01/iannella/06iannella.html
“The second-generation of DRM covers the description, identification, trading, protection, monitoring and tracking of all forms of rights usages over both tangible and intangible assets including management of rights holders relationships.”

"CNRI Position Paper for the W3C Workshop on Digital Rights Management," January 2001
Larry Lannom
http://www.w3.org/2000/12/drm-ws/pp/cnri.html

A Guide to Digital Rights Management (DRM)
Commonwealth of Australia. Department of Communications Information Technology and the Arts.
http://www.dcita.gov.au/drm/

New Practices in Flexible Learning: Framework for Rights Enabled Learning Object Exchange Trial 2003
Australian National Training Authoriy
http://flexiblelearning.net.au/projects/resources/rightsenabled_report.pdf

A Quick-Reference List of Common Terms, Organizations and Standards for Digital Rights Management, October 2002.
By Gordon Lyon, National Institute of Standards and Technology
http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/docs/NIST241assm.9oct.pdf

DRM Watch 2003 in Review DRM Standards
http://www.drmwatch.com/standards/article.php/3295291

Rights Expression Language Standards

IEEE Learning Technologies Standards Committee –Digital Rights Expression Lanaguage http://ltsc.ieee.org/wg4/
" Request for Input on Educational and Training Requirements document" explains what a standardized DREL can do and what types of applications are envisoned for it.

Connecting content providers with DRM standards
By Juliette Adams
Presented at the IEEE-LTSC-DREL Study Group Meeting,June 20, 2002
http://www.september15.net/log_september15_archive/ieee_adams.ppt

MPEG-21 Rights Expression Language and Rights Date Dictionary, 2003
By Xin Wang, Content Guard, Inc.
http://www.itscj.ipsj.or.jp/forum/mpeg-semi0309/Overview_of_MPEG-21_REL_and_RDD-e.pdf

Creative Commons – www.creativecommons.org
Using Creative Commons Metadata -http://creativecommons.org/technology/usingmarkup
http://creativecommons.org/learn/legal/
http://creativecommons.org/learn/licenses/comics1

Third Workshop on the Open Archives Initiative (OAI3)
http://info.web.cern.ch/info/OAIP/

OAI-Rights White Paper, September 26, 2003
Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting
http://www.openarchives.org/documents/OAIRightsWhitePaper.html

Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL)
http://odrl.net/docs/ODRL-brochure.pdf

Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Version 1.1, W3C Note 19 September 2002
http://www.w3.org/TR/odrl
The ODRL has no license requirements and is available in the spirit of "open source" software

Proposed Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) Rights Expression Language Based Upon ODRL, 2002.
http://xml.coverpages.org/ni2002-08-12-d.html

ONIX (Online Information Exchange) Metadata Specifications
MIT Libraries
http://libraries.mit.edu/guides/subjects/metadata/standards/onix.html

List prepared by Bonnie Klein, Defense Technical Information Center
Approved for Public Release
U.S.Government Work (17 USC §105) Not copyrighted in the U.S.