Minutes, May 4th, 2021

Status: 

In previous meetings, the group has worked on what TDM means in practice, the vocabulary to be used during the project, the goals and requirements for a technical solution, the creation of several use cases. They have also compiled a set of past and existing initiatives with a similar scope. 

Then, the group discussed on how rightsholders can declare to TDM Agents the reservation of TDM Rights. Three different technical solutions were selected: one based on http headers, another based on a file hosted on the origin server, and a third based on html meta tags. These three solutions correspond to different situations and technical skills. The priority in which these techniques should be processed by TDM Agents is still to be decided. 

Using one of these techniques, a rightsholder can express either that “TDM rights are not reserved”, “TDM rights are reserved” or “TDM rights are reserved but a TDM license can be acquired”. 

In the latter case, it is interesting for both parties (rightsholder and TDM Actor) to create a machine readable TDM policy which details in which conditions a TDM license can be acquired. 

The group is therefore now defining the model of such TDM policy.

Participants: Aziz Ndao, Tzviya, Leonard, Jean-Baptiste, Giulia, Laurent, Carlo Lavizzari, Mathilde

Agenda: discuss the draft of TDM Policy properties 

The TDM Policy is currently drafted in a shared GDoc. No serialization format is chosen so far, but ODRL 2 is the best candidate so far.   

The discussion focuses on some properties: 

• Content identifier.
  • STM is using DOI
  • We may decide that it takes the form of a URI, depending the serialization format. 
  • But using this content id forbids using the same policy for N resources: this is a big issue. 
• Rightsholder name & contact info 
  • We could add a rightsholder identifier.
• Rights reservation (values are no, yes, yes + a TDM policy)
  • if a TDM agent has reached this policy, this is because the rights reservation value is “yes”. This value will always be “yes”, therefore its use if not obvious. 
• “where” property: this is initially meant to express “EU” vs “non-EU”. 
  • The EU Directive already sets rules about TDM policies in the EU for research purpose, therefore no TDM policy defined by a rightsholder is applicable to “research” in the “EU”. 
  • Participants are wondering if going to this level of details in the policy is useful.
  • Both “where” and “when” are at the same conceptual level: either both are present or both absent from the TDM policy model.