[Odrl-geospatial] Welcome to the Odrl-geospatial@odrl.net mailing list!

[Elaine L. Westbrooks]

Good Afternoon:

Welcome to the Odrl-geospatial at 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 <Susanne.Guth at gmx.net> and we 
can certainly touch base with Renato Iannella, <renato at odrl.net> 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) 
<http://cugir.mannlib.cornell.edu/>.  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 at cornell.edu
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