From elw25 at cornell.edu Thu Oct 7 06:11:11 2004 From: elw25 at cornell.edu (Elaine L. Westbrooks) Date: Sat Jun 2 13:28:18 2007 Subject: [Odrl-geospatial] Welcome to the Odrl-geospatial@odrl.net mailing list! Message-ID: <5.2.1.1.2.20041006124752.00c39320@postoffice8.mail.cornell.edu> Good Afternoon: Welcome to the Odrl-geospatial@odrl.net mailing list! Many of you signed up for this list in early August, so I'm sorry about the delay. The Geospatial Group of the Open Digital Rights Language Initiative is finally coming to life! The delay in setting this up can also be attributed to the lack of subscribers from institutions outside of the US. I've been trying to identify people who may be interested. I know that there are lots of interesting things going on in Europe, Asia, Australia (to name a few regions) in the area of geospatial data management. The web page for the mailing list is: http://www.odrl.net/Profiles/Geospatial/ List archives can be found at: http://lists.odrl.net/pipermail/odrl-geospatial/ Although as a working group, we have been formally charged with the responsibility of creating a ODRL profile for geospatial data and drafting best practicess, this list is primarily designed to be a common meeting ground to discuss rights issues for those of us working with geospatial information. Susanne Guth will be are liason and we can certainly touch base with Renato Iannella, the driving force behind ODRL. I don't expect the volume to be high on this list. Out of courtesy to others, when possible, do not send attachments in your messages (mount your files to a public webserver instead). If someone would like to help me manage and moderate, I'd welcome it. I have permission to post an article written by Daniel Wright, entitled "Geospatial Digital Rights Management" The article may be downloaded at: http://metadata.mannlib.cornell.edu/geo_odrl/ I invite everyone to send a brief message to the list as an introduction. I'll start it off: I have been a metadata librarian at Albert Mann Library at Cornell University since 2000 where I serve as the metadata specialist for the Cornell University Geospatial Information Repository (CUGIR) . I also do a lot of work with the various digital library projects that incorporate METS, Dublin Core, TEI, DSpace, and OAI. Because of my interest in bridging the 2 worlds of GIS and Digital Libraries, I became quite interested in rights expression and management. I will out of the office from now until October 25, but I do plan to check my email during that time. I hope to hear from many of you soon! Kind Regards, Elaine Elaine L. Westbrooks Metadata Librarian Albert R. Mann Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14851 607.255.3973 mailto:elw25@cornell.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.odrl.net/pipermail/odrl-geospatial/attachments/20041006/db44e1be/attachment.html From renato at odrl.net Thu Oct 14 17:47:02 2004 From: renato at odrl.net (Renato Iannella) Date: Sat Jun 2 13:28:18 2007 Subject: [Odrl-geospatial] Geospatial DRM paper Message-ID: Elaine wrote: === I have permission to post an article written by Daniel Wright, entitled "Geospatial Digital Rights Management" The article may be downloaded at: http://metadata.mannlib.cornell.edu/geo_odrl/ ==== This paper covers some good requirements from the geospatial community. I have one question/clarification on the example used to grant the display permission for the asset at the "resolution of 1." Is this characteristic part of the data or the display device? If it is the former, the ODRL has a "quality" constraint, and all you need to define is a URI for "resolution", for example: 1 Cheers Renato Iannella ODRL Initiative http://odrl.net