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Subject: [rights-requirements] Library Requirements...
See the Dlib Magazine article which appeared yesterday (note that we are in communication with these folks...): http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july02/martin/07martin.html D-Lib Magazine July/August 2002 Volume 8 Number 7/8 ISSN 1082-9873 Federated Digital Rights Management * A Proposed DRM Solution for Research and Education Mairéad Martin Director, Advanced Internet Technologies The University of Tennessee Grace Agnew Associate University Librarian for Digital Library Systems Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey David L. Kuhlman Analyst, Advanced Internet Technologies The University of Tennessee John H. McNair Senior Systems Analyst, Advanced Internet Technologies The University of Tennessee William A. Rhodes Consultant, Advanced Internet Technologies The University of Tennessee Ron Tipton Senior Systems Analyst, Advanced Internet Technologies The University of Tennessee Introduction This article describes efforts underway within the research networking and library communities to develop a digital rights management (DRM) solution to support teaching and research. Our specific focus is to present a reference architecture for a federated DRM implementation that leverages existing and emerging middleware infrastructure. The goals of the Federated Digital Rights Management (FDRM) project are to support local and inter-institutional sharing of resources in a discretionary, secure and private manner, while endeavoring to maintain a balance between the rights of the end-user and those of the owner. "Federated" in our project title refers to the shared administration of access controls between the origin site and the resource provider: the origin site is responsible for providing attributes about the user to the resource provider. FDRM applies and extends the federated access control mechanisms of Shibboleth, a project of the Internet2 Middleware Initiative to develop "architectures, policy structures, practical technologies, and an open source implementation to support inter-institutional sharing of web resources subject to access controls". [SHIB] FDRM is being pursued by members of the VidMid Video-on-Demand Working Group [VIDMID], a collaboration between the Internet2 Middleware Initiative [I2MID] and the Video Development Initiative [VIDE]. The VidMid agenda is aligned with the goals of the National Science Foundation Middleware Initiative, a national effort to develop enabling middleware for applications in science, engineering, and education [NMI]. While VidMid work is centered on enabling digital video applications, the application of FDRM is extensible to digital content in any format. | John S. Erickson, Ph.D. | Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | PO Box 1158, Norwich, Vermont USA 05055 | 802-649-1683 (vox) 802-371-9796 (cell) 802-649-1695 (fax) | john_erickson@hpl.hp.com AIM/YIM/MSN: olyerickson
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