Hi all
It would be interesting to hear people's views on the effects of the
new public licence for the Handle software, described in an D-Lib
article at http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july06/07inbrief.html#LANNOM
Do people think that the new licence will increase uptake of the Handle
system - either in new applications/services by commercial enterprises,
or widening use of DOI?
My understanding (such as it is!) is that the costs for users of DOIs
under the International DOI Foundation's Handle licence are for the
services provided by Registration Agencies, so the new licence may have
little effect on established use. Will we see more 'flavours' of
persistent identifiers appear, will it become harder to decide where to
get your prefix from?
The TrustDR project is particularly interested in the application of
unique identifiers such as DOI for managing rights in digital
repositories of Learning Objects. We are exploring the idea of a
registry for rights metadata/licences, combined with DOIs at a suitable
granularity, that enables objects to associate with rights expressions.
It would be encouraging if developments and adoption of such systems
looks likely!
Please note I am posting from a non-technical standpoint, but any
thoughts on this topic would be most welcome.
Regards
Jackie
Jackie Proven
Digital Rights Research & Development Assistant
TrustDR JISC Project
UHI Millennium Institute
http://www.uhi.ac.uk/lis/projects/trustdr/
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Perth College
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Perth PH1 2NX
Tel. 01738 877339
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