© 2004, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. Managing and Protecting Digital Rights within a Network of Geo-spatial Web Services 11 th EC GI & GIS Workshop, 30 th June 2005 Graham Vowles Roland M. Wagner

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2004, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.2 GeoDRM Working Group Part of Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) – where geospatial standards are defined GeoDRM Working Group – comprises of content providers and technology providers Charter is not to invent new digital rights technologies but to reuse and extend for geospatial data and services Formed in June 2004 – Graham Vowles, Roland Wagner, Joe Cardinale Co-chairs Last meeting June 13-16, St Johns, Newfoundland, Canada.

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2004, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.3 On-demand Service Network Knowledge Network Information Network Technical Network Business Network GeoDRM is about rights enabling a network of geospatial services

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2004, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.4 Ways of managing and protecting Intellectual Property Weak DRM Strong DRM no protection copyright statement click-through licence managed access watermarking encryption Today we rely on our legal framework and licence agreements to protect our intellectual property Our business is shifting so we need alternative ways to manage and protect our intellectual property

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2004, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.5 GeoDRM Licence Extents Licencee Simplified view of the extents of a GeoDRM Licence: three-dimensions of rights, space and time Time Rights Space

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2004, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.6 GeoDRM Abstract Rights Model (ARM) Extents of Intellectual Property Owner User Licensor Extents Delegated to Licensor Invalid Request!Valid Request Licencee Extents of Licence

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2004, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.7 GeoDRM Working Group Programs 2005 Sept. Chicago January N.Y. April Frascati June SJohn Nov. Bonn Jan ? April ? Demonstrator OWS Reference Model Program1: GeoDRM.DemonstratorIdentify Program2: GeoDRM.OWS3 TestbedDevelop Program3: GeoDRM.Interoperability ExperimentConcistancy Program4: GeoDRM.Reference ModelDescribe Interop. Experi.

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2004, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.8 Program1: GeoDRM.Demonstrator Goal –Identification of existing technologies for authentication and authorization –Setting up and self education a group within OGC Execution Time Frame: January 17 th – April 4 th Members –Boeing, con terra, Fraunhofer ISST, Oracle, Ordnance Survey, State NRW, University of Münster, TU Munich, Status/Results –[Finalized] –Secured WMS Demonstrator (other members), WSS/WAS, GeoXACML –ISO REL with WMS (Oracle) Demonstrator

© 2004, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc. OGC GeoDRM WG Demonstrator Final Presentation April 6 th, 2005 OGC Meeting Frascati Demonstrator

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2004, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.10 OWS3 Program2: GeoDRM.OWS3 Testbed Goal –Development and Specification of an OGC interoperable License Click-Through Mechanism for users to acknowledge a license prior OWS access –Cascadable architecture Execution Time Frame: April 18 th – October 30 th Members –Abstract: IFGI-Fraunhofer_ISST-con terra –Implementation: Cubewerx, lat-lon, UniBW Munich, IFGI-Fraunhofer_ISST-con terra Status/Results –[On going] –Draft Specifications Demonstrator

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2004, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.11 Program3: GeoDRM.Interoperability Experiment Goal –Ensure consistency between technology fragments –Interoperability Experiments between OGC identified and developed technologies and solutions (GeoDRM.Demonstrator, GeoDRM.OWS3, DP Web Pricing & Ordering, DP GeoXACML) –Authentication, Authorization, Click-Through Licensing, Pricing & Ordering Execution Time Frame: September- November Members –30 days call for participation, expected end of July 2005 Status/Results (expected) –[Planed] –IE Reports, Change Requests for OGC Specification Development DemonstratorOWS3Interop. Experi.

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2004, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.12 Conclusion GeoDRM WG focus on highly needed functions: authentication, authorization, click-through license, pricing Developing a GeoDRM Reference Model to formally define the problem Developing a GeoDRM Framework to rights enable a network of services Specifications need to be interoperable and consistent First drafts expected in November 2005 Closely related to Data and Service Sharing aspects of INSPIRE work program.

Helping the World to Communicate Geographically © 2004, Open Geospatial Consortium, Inc.13 Thank you! GeoDRM (Co-) Chairs: Graham Vowles: Joe Cardinale: Roland M. Wagner: