OAI and Project RoMEO Initiate OAI-Rights Working Group

Open Archives Initiative and Project RoMEO Initiate OAI-rights

Ithaca, NY; Los Alamos NM; Loughborough UK. September 29, 2003.

The Open Archives Initiative and Project RoMEO announce the formation of OAI-rights. The goal of this effort is to investigate and develop means of expressing rights about metadata and resources in the OAI framework. The result will be an addition to the OAI implementation guidelines that specifies mechanisms for rights expressions within the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH).

The area of rights expressions is wide-open with many organizations proposing languages and mechanisms. Therefore, the OAI-rights effort will aim to be extensible, providing a general framework for expressing rights statements within OAI-PMH. These statements will target both the metadata itself and the resources described by that metadata. In the context of this broader framework, OAI-rights will use Creative Commons licenses as a motivating and deployable example.

A white paper describing the scope and issues in OAI-rights is available at:

http://www.openarchives.org/documents/OAIRightsWhitePaper.html

OAI-rights work will begin in September 2003, with completion of specifications planned for second quarter 2004. A preliminary timeline for the work is as follows:

September 2003       Announcement of OAI-rights and formation of technical group
End of January 2004  Release of alpha specification to controlled group
End of March 2004    Release of beta specification to general public
End of April 2004    Final specification release

OAI-rights Working Group Members

The members of the OAI-rights working group are:

Caroline Arms <[email protected]> - Library of Congress
Chris Barlas <[email protected]> - Rightscom
Tim Cole <[email protected]> - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Mark Doyle <[email protected]> - American Physical Society
Henk Ellermann <[email protected]> - Erasmus Electronic Publishing Initiative
John S. Erickson <[email protected]> - Hewlett/Packard DSpace
Elizabeth Gadd <[email protected]> - Project RoMEO/Loughborough University
Chris Gutteridge <[email protected]> - eprints.org/University of Southampton
Carl Lagoze <[email protected]> - OAI/Cornell University Information Science
Uwe Mueller <[email protected]> - Humboldt University Berlin
Michael L. Nelson <[email protected]> - OAI/Old Dominion University Computer Science
John Ober <[email protected]> - California Digital Library
Charles Oppenheim <[email protected]> - Project RoMEO/Loughborough University
Sandy Payette <[email protected]> - FEDORA/Cornell University Information Science
Andy Powell <[email protected]> - UKOLN
Steve Proberts <[email protected]> - Project RoMEO/Loughborough University
Herbert Van de Sompel <[email protected]> - OAI/Los Alamos National Laboratory
Simeon Warner <[email protected]> - OAI/arXiv/Cornell University Information Science
Participant to be announced - Creative Commons

OAI-rights Organizing Committee

Carl Lagoze, Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael Nelson, Simeon Warner (for the OAI) Elizabeth Gadd, and Steve Probets (for Project RoMEO).

Contacts

The OAI Executive:

[email protected] Carl Lagoze
[email protected] Herbert Van de Sompel

For information on the Open Archives Initiative, contact [email protected].

[Source: http://www.openarchives.org/news/oairightspress030929.html]

Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive. See details in the news story "RoMEO and OAI-PMH Teams Develop Rights Solution Using ODRL and Creative Common Licenses."

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