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Release of OAI Rights Specification

Conveying Rights Expressions About Metadata in the OAI-PMH Framework

Date:      Tue, 3 May 2005 21:23:26 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Simeon Warner <[email protected]>
To:        [email protected], [email protected]
Subject:   Release of OAI Rights Specification

[Editors of Conveying Rights Expressions About Metadata in the OAI-PMH Framework]

We are pleased to announce the release of guidelines for conveying rights expressions about metadata in the OAI-PMH framework:

     http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-rights.htm

The guidelines specify a mechanism for including rights expressions that pertain to the contents of the <metadata> parts of records in OAI-PMH responses. No new rights expression language has been created. Instead, the specification provides a mechanism to include existing and future XML rights expressions. Description of rights expressions associated with set and repository aggregations is supported through manifests of rights expressions in set and repository descriptions. The design has been guided by the need for simple and clear semantics that will allow service-providers to make harvesting and use decisions based on these rights expressions.

The guidelines were developed by the OAI-rights effort initiated in collaboration with project RoMEO, and have benefited from the broad experience of a number of contributors:

     http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/guidelines-rights.htm#acknowledgements

Best wishes,

Carl Lagoze
Herbert Van de Sompel
Michael Nelson
Simeon Warner

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Simeon Warner                 Email: [email protected]
Cornell Information Science              Tel: 607-254-8605
301 College Ave                          Fax: 607-255-5196
Ithaca, NY 14850-4623, USA

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Prepared by Robin Cover for The XML Cover Pages archive. See details in the 2005-05-06 news story: "Open Archives Initiative Releases Specification for Conveying Rights Expressions." General references in "XML and Digital Rights Management (DRM)."
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