A TDMRep meeting is planned during the new W3C annual conference, on Friday 14 November 2025 at 7:30 am UTC, duration 1:30h. The W3C TPAC is an hybrid event. Some participants will be in Kobe, Japan, from November 1O to … Continue reading →

Since the last CG meeting, some participants have been following the ongoing AI Pref project at the IETF. Intensive discussions are still ongoing there (email archive: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/ai-control/); currently, the Vocabulary for Expressing AI Usage Preferences, initially drafted within the Open … Continue reading →

Quick recap The CG discussed the evolution of the opt-out landscape, open issues related to inference, search, and content discovery, and the need for standardization, considering the possibility of integrating the work done at IETF on robots.txt. They also discussed … Continue reading →

Update on the ongoing effort for the development of a common vocabulary on TDM The Open Future Foundation is facilitating discussion among representatives of opt-out solutions, rightsholders organisations, and AI platforms, towards developing a common vocabulary on TDM usages. The … Continue reading →

Update on meetings and presentations of the TDM protocol  On 5th June a webinar on the protocol and how to implement it was organized by FEP and EDRLab; more than 70 publishers attended, and positive feedback was received.  On July 11th, … Continue reading →

The TDMRep Community Group had its first 2023 call on April 4th. Several new members of the CG joined the call, from the International Association of STM Publishers, the CCC (Copyright Clearance Center) and Taylor & Francis Group. It was … Continue reading →

Giulia and I had a quick call, to discussed a practical path to the next steps of our work. Here is our proposal: 1/ Study if “the use of data for the purposes of training an AI/ML model” is the … Continue reading →

After the release of our final report, in February 2022, we had the opportunity to present the project to several publishers and publishers associations in European countries and start discussing possible pilots in order to gather feedback on the first … Continue reading →

Good news, we have just published the final report of the TDM Representation Protocol. You’ll find it at the URL https://www.w3.org/2022/tdmrep/. It is referenced from the TDMRep Community home page. As multiple EU countries are moving towards the implementation of … Continue reading →

This meeting was held on Thursday 26 October 2021.  After a description of the work done so far (PDF available at http://www.edrlab.org/public/slides/tdmrep/TDMRep%20presentation.pdf), participants to the CG demonstrated the prototypes developed so far.  Prototypes: Jean-Baptiste de Vathaire (Cairn.info) described the integration … Continue reading →