Lifecycle Metadata for
Digital Objects
November 27, 2006
Rights Management Metadata
What is Rights Management?
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Protection of copyright
Protection of patent
Protection of the integrity of the digital object
(and thereby reputation of the author/creator
herself)
What is being protected?
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Object itself (integrity)
Uses of the object (access controls)
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Limiting use (protecting rights of the owner)
Enabling use (protecting rights of the user)
Protection against theft
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Threats of the law
Fully document with metadata and protect the
metadata
Authentication of users and user requests
Watermarking/steganography
What about integrity of the
digital object?
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Relevant even in public domain
E.g. “copyleft” agreement:
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt
See but not change, or change only with
notification
Rights management metadata
for copyright (DMCA)
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Identify object
Identify creator
Identify owner of rights
Identify terms and conditions of use
Pointers to details
Other stuff per Copyright office
Rights possession metadata
for the user
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Personal identification
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Authentication schemes
Digital signature
Institutional identification
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Web of trust
Certification
Automating everything: the
OAIS access module
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User’s authentication authority
Database of rights protection requirements
for objects
Repository authentication authority checks
one against the other
Request is allowed or denied
And now for something
completely different
Course Deliverables:
A few remarks
Project
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You are supposed to turn in (by 12 midnight at the end
of the day of December 4):
The METS profile based on the DSpace SIP profile,
including an instantiated document as Appendix 1, as in
the DSpace example. This document should be in plain
text format.
Unless your actual file(s) is/are huge (discuss this with
me) you should also upload it/them.
A document (in Word or rtf format) that explains how you
would ideally preserve your object and the metadata
needed at ingest which you have included in the profile,
discussing why you chose the additional extension
metadata schema(s) and how they should be used
(referring to your instantiation METS document as your
example).
How to upload
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Upload your project to DSpace in the "2006
Final METS SIP Profiles" collection under the
Lifecycle Metadata for Digital Objects
community.
Load all your files mentioned above in the
same item, and title it "Filenametype METS
SIP profile", of course substituting the name
of your assigned file type.
You must upload the files by 12 midnight at
the end of the day of December 4.
Presentation
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On the final day, December 4, you will give a
“Research-a-palooza”-type presentation:
You have 1 slide to summarize your work.
You must send your slide to me by Monday
morning at 8:00 AM.
You then have 5 minutes during the class
period to present (from your slide) what you
worked on and specific complications you
encountered.
Take-home final essay
assignment
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On December 4, I will hand out a final essay
assignment.
It will be due on Friday, December 8.
You will upload it (by midnight December 8)
to DSpace in the collection "2006 final
takehome," still to be created, which will be a
closed collection and will be removed after
grading.