Dear meta2 colleagues,
You may have noticed in a previous mail message from Stu that I
volunteered to lead a rights management element working group. While
I'm happy to host such a discussion, I should state that I am extremely
prejudiced that more than minimal handling of the rights management
issue is out-of-scope for the Dublin Core. A look at the standing
definition for the element states that it is
"A link to a copyright notice, to a rights-management statement, or to a
service that would provide information about terms of access to the
resource. Formal specification of rights is currently under development.
Users and developers should understand that use of this element is
currently considered to be experimental. "
Working with John Kunze on RFC 1, I'm suggesting a change to:
"A free text explanation pertaining to the terms of access to the
resource, or a link to a copyright notice, to a rights-management
statement, or to a service that would provide information about terms of
access to the resource."
This eliminates the implication in the old definition that the
specification of the rights management element might attempt some
taxonomy of rights management. In my humble opinion, this is hopeless -
rights management is simply too complex.
Now that I've opened up the discussion, I'm happy to take requests from
anyone wanting to join this group.
Carl
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Carl Lagoze
Project Leader, Digital Library Research Group
Department of Computer Science
Upson Hall, Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
Phone: 607-255-6046
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