Lifecycle Metadata for Digital Objects November 27, 2006 Rights Management Metadata

What is Rights Management? 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? Object itself (integrity) Uses of the object (access controls) Limiting use (protecting rights of the owner) Enabling use (protecting rights of the user)

Protection against theft 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? Relevant even in public domain E.g. “copyleft” agreement: See but not change, or change only with notification

Rights management metadata for copyright (DMCA) 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 Personal identification Authentication schemes Digital signature Institutional identification Web of trust Certification

Automating everything: the OAIS access module 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 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 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 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 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.