Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information02/09/20141 Rights metadata: why and why now? MODELS 10, November 1999

Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information02/09/20142 Why rights metadata: contents l The nature of things l The impact of scale l Business models l Why not yesterday?

Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information02/09/20143 Impacts of carrier... l Physical l Books, journals, magazines, recordings, videos... l Terms and conditions from copyright law Complex but consistently applicable Includes educational exceptions (eg fair use) l Digital l Datasets, e-journals, e-books, etc l Licences based in copyright law Varied terms and conditions restriction or loss of educational exceptions (eg fair use)

Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information02/09/20144 Impacts of carrier 2 l Physical l Information access through... ownership (purchase: allows royalties) –term: indefinite borrowing (public lending right) copying (CLA licences etc) l Digital l Information access through... Licences (even CD-based objects) Often remotely hosted (implies continuing cost) –term: while you pay no borrowing no copying

Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information02/09/20145 Licences mean... l Lawyers get paid l Humans needed to read, agree and enforce worth while only for large scale transactions

Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information02/09/20146 Matters of scale l Library: 100,000 to 10,000,000 books 1,000 to 10,000 serial titles –maybe 1,000,000 to 100,000,000 articles <10,000 cassettes, videos etc ~100,000 slides

Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information02/09/20147 Matters of scale 2 l Electronic library now 100 CD-ROMs 10 remote datasets <1,000 ejournals –<100,000 articles Perhaps 50 licence agreements?

Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information02/09/20148 Matters of scale 3 l Digital library future... billions of digital objects thousands of licence agreements many aggregations –may require more restrictive licences –cf COPAC impact from BLCMP record licence

Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information02/09/20149 Digital business models l Pay to publish, free to read philanthropy/service to community value-added services/advertisements l Subscription closed access needs perception of continuing, growing value –eg e-journals, datasets etc

Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information02/09/ Digital business, no model! l No simple system for single item access beyond the CD-ROM & DVD... cf book, article, music/video item, etc l Needs rights metadata and information agents to support on suitable scale for library use

Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information02/09/ Why now? l Use for learning & teaching E-reserve, on demand publishing, etc l Scholarly monograph crisis l Disney-dominance l Lead times

Chris Rusbridge: JISC Committee for Electronic Information02/09/ JISC: more information l See JISC web pages l eLib web pages maintained by UKOLN l Mailbase lists including