Dear All,
As you may know, the IEEE Learning Technology Sub-Committee (LTSC) has
been working on the standardisation of a Digital Rights Expression
Language (DREL) for six months or so.
At this stage, it is most important to have as complete a set of
e-learning specific requirements on a DREL. Though requirements will
continue to be collected for ongoing work on the future IEEE DREL, the
first tranche will close by October 3d, and will form the basis of the
standard.
At the moment, more requirements are still needed from as diverse a set
of e-learning stakeholders as possible.
To facilitate the requirements gathering process, the IEEE DREL working
group has made a spreadsheet
<http://ltsc.ieee.org/wg4/DREL_Requirements_draft3.xls> with all the
requirements that have been gathered so far.
What the spreadsheet indicates is
- the person or organisation who submitted the requirement
- the domain category of the requirement (HE, FE, Secondary, training,
etc. or 'General', if it's across the board)
- 'Education/Training Requirement'; a brief use-case-like outline of the
requirement from an educational point of view
- 'REL Requirement'; a translation of the Education/Training Requirement
from the point of view of the DREL itself
'Technical suggestions' and 'Disposition' are for the benefit of the
requirement evaluators. The colour bands indicate the domain category.
To submit a requirement, all you need to do is check whether the
requirement has been included in the spreadsheet already. If it hasn't,
just add a row to the spreadsheet, and fill in the 'SOURCE' 'DOMAIN' and
'Education/Training Requirement' columns in a red font. The whole
spreadsheet can then be sent to either me or the working group's editor,
Jon Mason ([log in to unmask]), and it'll be merged into the
master spreadsheet that will be maintained on the LTSC website.
Please bear in mind that the group is focussed on gathering requirements
on a digital requirements language, as opposed to a complete digital
rights management (DRM) system. The main difference is that a DREL just
expresses exactly what rights an author or other rightsholder wishes to
grant to users. It doesn't get involved in enforcing these rights.
You can read more about the IEEE DREL work on
<http://cetis.ac.uk/content/20030710051134>.
Any submissions would be greatly appreciated, but, more importanty, it
will help ensure that the digital content of the future can express the
rights you need it to express as an author, a consumer or custodian.
--
Wilbert Kraan
Web Journalist
Centre For Educational Technology Interoperability Standards (CETIS)
+44 (0)1248 383645
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