The document discusses RightsML, a standard for expressing rights and permissions for digital content. RightsML is based on the ODRL standard and allows publishers to specify machine-readable permissions, restrictions, and duties for content. It can be embedded in content files or stored separately. The document outlines efforts to promote adoption of RightsML, including finalizing the RightsML 1.1 specification, providing examples and templates, expressing RightsML in JSON for embedding in files, and getting feedback from users. It announces the next meeting will be in Istanbul in March 2014.

1. Rights Expression Working Group
http://www.flickr.com/photos/asten/1868084726/
Stuart Myles * Associated Press * 22nd October 2013

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
Machine processable permissions, restrictions and duties
Derived from media industry requirements
Can be embedded within content (e.g. G2, ATOM) or stand alone
Designed for automatic evaluation

3. ODRL v2
The Core ODRL model supports permissions, restrictions and duties
http://www.w3.org/community/odrl/two/model/
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4. ODRL Encoding (1/3)
The ODRL model is designed to be encoded in various formats
So far, only the XML encoding has been standardized...
http://www.w3.org/community/odrl/two/xml/
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5. ODRL Encoding (2/3)
But there is now an official draft for an ODRL ontology
http://www.w3.org/ns/odrl/2/
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6. ODRL Encoding (3/3)
And an official draft for ODRL in JSON
http://www.w3.org/community/odrl/work/json/
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7. Driving Adoption
• How do we drive adoption of RightsML?
• Finish the RightsML 1.0 spec
• Provide examples and templates
• Solve RightsML in binaries
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8. Finish the RightsML Spec
• Reviewed the RightsML spec from start to finish
– Firmed up the descriptions, removed ambiguity
– Eliminated some artificial restrictions
– RightsML_1.1-EP2-spec-DRAFT_1.pdf
• Clarify relationship between ODRL and RightsML
– RightsML as a standard
– RightsML as an implementation guide
– Founded on ODRL, but only need to read RightsML docs
• Validating RightsML
– ODRL XSD alone is insufficient
– We propose to also validate vocabularies and business rules
• Probably using Schematron http://www.schematron.com/
• Still to come...
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9. Examples and Templates
• Documentation and examples
– http://dev.iptc.org/RightsML
– http://dev.iptc.org/RightsML-10-Implementation-Examples
– Spec is important but implementation is often by copying the
examples
• Additional restrictions examples have been developed
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Geography
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Distribution channel
Default “read the editors’ notes”
• Templates, designed to be copied and filled in
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10. Rights in Binaries
• Clear theme: rights metadata for photo and video
– An id linking to a registry with rights metadata is one approach
– Embedding rights metadata in binaries needs to be supported
• IPTC experimented with embedding ODRL in XMP
– Quickly determined that XMP won’t support arbitrary RDF
– We toyed with using double-escaped XML
• But concluded that it was an ugly hack a bit inelegant
• Express ODRL model (and hence RightsML) in JSON
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Drafted within W3C ODRL Community Group
http://www.w3.org/community/odrl/work/json/
Try it out and provide feedback
Do we like the features borrowed from JSON-LD?
Is it a “natural” JSON implementation? Does that matter?
Does it work within ninjs?
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11. RightsML
MOTION – Standards Committee
MOTION (to the Standards Committee):
To approve RightsML version 1.1
as specified by
RightsML_1.1-EP2-spec-DRAFT_1.pdf
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12. Rights Road Map
• Try out RightsML and give us feedback
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Does the spec need further clarifications?
Are the use cases, templates and examples helpful?
Can you contribute any?
What else would help to drive adoption?
http://dev.iptc.org/RightsML
iptc-rightsml-dev@yahoogroups.com
• Outreach
– EU Media Mixer http://mediamixer.eu/
– IPTC Photo Metadata group
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13. Date and Place of Next Meeting
Istanbul, Turkey March, 2014
http://www.flickr.com/photos/47096398@N08/5864315469/
Thanks and Goodbye!
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