JISC Shared Services and Middleware Studies: Digital Rights Management

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JISC Shared Services and Middleware Studies
Digital Rights Management

• Dr Charles Duncan, Dr Martin Morrey
• C.Duncan_at_intrallect.com M.Morrey_at_intrallect.com

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Intrallect

• Solutions for Learning Object Management
• Products and Consultancy
• Enabling a distributed learning object economy
• DRM is core to Intrallect activities
• Standards-based technology specialists
• Active internationally in standards groups
• Total focus on HE and FE
• Clients are universities and colleges
• Close collaboration with CETIS/UKOLN

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Issue space - Dimensions

• Types of activity
• Types of resources
• Legal Framework
• Technology aspects
• Digital preservation
• Architectures
• Licence models
• Cultural
• Personal
• Related projects
• Standards bodies

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Methodology

• Development of Use Cases
• Consultation with community groups
• Evaluation of solutions
• Reporting

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Use case spectrum

• Learning and teaching
• Research
• Administration
• Support
• Libraries
• Business and communities

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Rights Management
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Rights Management
What legal framework? Licensing conditions?
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Rights Management
Human readable Machine readable
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Rights Management
How is rights information passed with objects?
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Rights Management
Need to ensure that rights are always visible
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Rights Management
Must be in a position to legally enforce rights?
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Use case community

• Experienced DRM practitioners
• IEEE, CEN/ISSS, COLIS,
• RoMEO, EDINA, MIMAS,
• Becta, UKOLN
• JORUM, HILT
• UK HE and FE community
• academic, educational technology and support
  staff
• ALT, LTSN, RSC, UKeU, CETIS
• Policymakers
• JISC, Funding Councils, Becta

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Next Steps

• Develop use cases
• Covering all dimensions
• FE/HE
• Teaching, learning, research, admin, libraries
• Sharing, commercial
• Journals, datasets, learning objects
• Join in
• jisc-drm_at_jiscmail.ac.uk
• www.intrallect.com/drm-study/