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Text and Data Mining Reservation Protocol Community Group

The goal of this Group is to facilitate Text and Data Mining (TDM) Reservation Protocol in Europe and elsewhere, by specifying a simple and practical machine-readable solution, capable of expressing the reservation of TDM rights - following the rules set by the new European DSM Directive / Art.4 - and the availability of machine-readable licenses for TDM actors.

w3c/tdm-reservation-protocol

Group's public email, repo and wiki activity over time

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final reports / licensing info

date name commitments
TDM Reservation Protocol, version 1 Licensing commitments
TDM Reservation Protocol, version 2 Licensing commitments

Chairs, when logged in, may publish draft and final reports. Please see report requirements.

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Call for Participation in TDM Reservation Protocol Community Group

The TDM Reservation Protocol Community Group has been launched:


The goal of this Group is to facilitate TDM in Europe and elsewhere, by specifying a simple and practical machine-readable solution, capable of expressing the reservation of TDM rights – following the rules set by the new European DSM Directive / Art.4 – and the availability of machine-readable licenses for TDM actors.


In order to join the group, you will need a W3C account. Please note, however, that W3C Membership is not required to join a Community Group.

This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2021-01-18 by Laurent Le Meur. The following people supported its creation: Laurent Le Meur, Ivan Herman, ANNE BERGMAN-TAHON, Giulia Marangoni, Catherine Blache. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.

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