IPTC's permissions and restrictions language is RightsML. Based on W3C's CG ODRL

1. Rights Expression Working Group
Stuart Myles * Associated Press * 26th October 2015
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2. RightsML
Publishers need to express rights on the uses of content
Often need to enforce rights on behalf of 3rd parties
Clients need to know permissions and restrictions
Rights are a key criteria for selecting content
RightsML is an IPTC standard, based on ODRL
http://dev.iptc.org/RightsML
http://www.w3.org/community/odrl
Express machine readable permissions, restrictions and duties
Derived from media industry requirements
Mainly from AP, NLA, Getty, WSJ, Newsright
Can be embedded within content (e.g. G2, ATOM) or stand alone
Designed for automatic evaluation
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3. ODRL 2.1 and RightsML 1.2
• More encodings of the ODRL Core Model
– JSON https://www.w3.org/community/odrl/json/2.1/
– XML https://www.w3.org/community/odrl/xml/2.1/
– RDF http://www.w3.org/ns/odrl/2/ODRL21
• Slimmed down Common Vocabulary
– https://www.w3.org/community/odrl/vocab/2.1/
• RightsML should be updated to have equivalent changes
– Change references from ODRL 2.0 to 2.1
– JSON and RDF encoding, in addition to current XML
– Leverage new “profile” property in ODRL Core Model
• GOAL: Prepare RightsML 1.2 for approval in March
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4. Beyond Policies:
Rights Statements
• RightsML is aimed precisely at describing policies
– Machine readable permissions, restrictions and duties
• But what about everything else, such as …
– Human readable descriptions
– Re-usable packages of rights
– Links between sets of rights
• Two efforts are attempting to address the everything else
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5. Rights Statements
• ODRS
– For licensing and reuse of open data sets
– Points to policies (human or machine-readable)
– http://theodi.org/guides/publishers-guide-to-the-open-data-rights-statement-
vocabulary
• Europeana, DPLA, Creative Commons
– For licensing and reuse of cultural objects
– Directly incorporates ODRL ontology
– http://rightsstatements.org/files/151002requirements_for_the_technical_infrastruc
ture_for_standardized_international_rights_statements.pdf
– http://rightsstatements.org (TK in “early 2016”)
• These two are similar linked data approaches
– Each aimed at particular domains
– Structurally, could apply to virtually any asset – including news
• Worth watching – and perhaps helping
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6. Software Supporting ODRL
• licensed
– https://github.com/iptc/rightsml-dev/tree/master/licensed
– Python
– Supports XML and JSON encodings
• rightsml-lib-js
– https://github.com/iptc/rightsml-dev/tree/master/rightsml-lib-js
– Javascript
– Supports XML and JSON encodings
• odrlapi
– http://oeg-upm.github.io/odrlapi/
– Java
– Supports RDF encoding
• w3odrl21
– https://github.com/xmljim/w3odrl21
– Java
– Supports XML and JSON encodings
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7. Date and Place of Next Meeting
Doha, Qatar 7 – 9 March 2016
Thanks!
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