[Odrl-geospatial] GeoDRM

[Steve Morris]

The GeoDRM web site is at:  
http://www.opengeospatial.org/groups/?iid=129   Note that the web site 
expresses an interest in learning from the library experience, citing 
Harlan Onsrud's article at: http://www.geoall.net/library_harlanonsrud.html

The initiative more or less kicked off in May with a GeoDRM workshop 
co-led by the Open Geospatial Consortium (GC) and the GeoData Alliance:
http://www.geoall.net/upcomingevents.html   The FGDC the Open Data 
Consortium Project are also involved.  There is a GeoDRM initiative 
mailing list but it is closed to OGC members--we've been working at 
membership status but are not there yet so I haven't been able to get at 
the email archives.  See: 
http://mail.opengeospatial.org/mailman/listinfo/geodrm   I'd been hoping 
to get involved in this back in May but have been stuck on the 
membership thing. 

Apparently the initial "road map" of the working group is:

"1. to understand the scope of the issues. As a starting point the group 
will work from the
DRM use cases studies carried out by the UK Joint Information Systems 
Committee
(JISC). Governmental data providers, commercial data providers, 
commercial system
providers, technology providers and systems integrators all need to be 
involved in
developing the GeoDRM use cases.
2. to relate the identified use cases to existing, mainstream DRM solutions;
3. to ensure that the OGC specification will be compatible with GeoDRM 
solutions
(possibly by providing 'hooks', such as a <PRICE> element, into the 
developing OGC
service specifications);"  (cited from: 
http://www.space.qinetiq.com/icp2/downloads/EOSIG-INF-RPT-003.pdf)

There was a solicitation of DRM use cases before that discussion but the 
use case templates were restricted to member access--I'd hoped to 
contribute some library use cases (consumption and licensing of a 
services as opposed to just data is a growing issue for us)

I did get a chance to see a Powerpoint that showed the "DRM Playing 
Field" from the GeoDRM perspective--it shows GeoDRM, ODRC, JISC DRM 
work, and XRML as slightly overlapping areas on the same plan, inferring 
that ODRL would be taken into consideration.  From my observation, the 
geospatial industry often follows a particular pattern of technology 
adoption and development:

1) identify problem to be solved
2) study solutions to that problem as found in other industries (comes 
naturally to GIS as it is inherently cross-industry)
3) formulate a solution tailored to the needs of the geospatial industry
and sometimes 4) defer to an industry wide solution (deprecate or adapt 
the geospatial-specific approach)

... #3 often comes before #4 because the complexity of  issues in the 
geospatial industry often forces early innovation; or requires solutions 
that reach beyond the mainstream approaches.

One thing to consider is the degree to which GeoDRM will cover or not 
cover geospatial data rights issues outside the realm of OGC specs, 
services, and OGC-related files (GML, etc.) ... e.g., covering straight 
download of a shapefile from an FTP site.

It occurs to me that I saw a notice of a new GeoDRM related 
survey--can't find the link at the moment but will send that if I can 
find it.

Steve

Renato Iannella wrote:

>
> On 2 Nov 2004, at 03:22, Steve Morris wrote:
>
>> My first question:  what is (or will be) the relationship between the 
>> ODRL geospatial profile and GeoDRM?  GeoDRM apears to be focused not 
>> just on services but also on data files (GML, etc.), but would 
>> appear--at least initially--to be focused more on OGC-spec based data.
>
>
>
> Hi Steve - do you have any links to this group or any work that they have
> completed?  We can certainly work with them to produce a joint spec??
>
> Cheers
>
> Renato Iannella
> ODRL Initiative
> http://odrl.net
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Steve Morris
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North Carolina State University Libraries
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