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Subject: JISC TechWatch: new open call on Digital Rights Expression Languages
Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:38:01 GMT
From: Paul Anderson <[log in to unmask]>
Digital Rights Expression Languages (DRELs)
JISC Technology and Standards Watch has published an open call for a report on
Digital Rights Expression Language technologies.
We are now in the process of looking for potential authors, co-authors or peer
reviewers. If you have an interest in being involved then please send an email
with the subject line 'Open call DRELs' to [log in to unmask]
The full call is published on the TSW website at:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/index.cfm?name=techwatch_ic_reports2004_open
The call is as follows:
A recent JISC report, Digital Rights Management, outlined the results of a
study on the best pproach for JISC and the UK education community to adopt in
relation to Digital Rights Management (DRM). The report included some
discussion of the role of DRELs in DRM in HE/FE. DRELs allow asserted rights
over content (most obviously copyright) to be expressed in a machine-readable
format and facilitate the dissemination of this information along with more
general metadata, for example, when general metadata is harvested from a
cataloguing system. It is generally recognised that existing metadata have an
inadequate structure for handling such rights information. The report
recommended that a watching brief should be maintained on DRELs and the future
development of enforcement systems.
JISC TechWatch would therefore like to commission a report into DRELs. This
will cover the basic principles of DRELs, their taxonomy, relation to metadata
in general, for example LOM and existing solutions such as Open Digital Rights
Language (ODRL), XrML, MPEG-21/5, METSrights, Adobe Content Manager and
others. What are the differing profiles, costs, business models and benefits
of these various solutions? Where is the technology going to be in a few
years’ time, particularly with regard to full integration with DRM solutions
in education? The report should also discuss any relevant standards and the
on-going standardization process, for example, the work of IEEE Learning
Technology Standards Committee, Working Group 3, and how issues of
interoperability are being addressed.
JISC Technology & Standards Watch
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/techwatch
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