[1] From: David Green <david@cni.org> (176)
Subject: NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT: Conference on Copyright Management
Systems
[2] From: David Green <david@cni.org> (222)
Subject: NINCH Newsletter #5
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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 15:55:57 -0500
From: David Green <david@cni.org>
Subject: NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT: Conference on Copyright Management Sys=
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NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
January 10, 1997
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
Inter-operable Electronic Copyright Management Systems
Friday 21 - Saturday 22 March 1997
Florence, Italy
The future of IPR management in networks is currently both under
discussion and under development. In Europe and the United
States, as well as in Japan and the rest of the world, project
groups and technology vendors is busy discussing, developing and
refining systems for managing copyright transactions.
Unfortunately, this vast amount of activity is largely
uncoordinated, with vendors and project groups individually
promoting systems that may conflict which will not be in the
interests of either right holders or consumers. Specifically,
right holders could find themselves dependent on technology
vendors and network operators offering non-interoperable systems
for the dissemination of copyright material. For the users, a
multiplicity of black boxes and associated hard and software to
access systems running non-interoperable copyright management
systems would be an unreasonable expense.
It is therefore proposed, by the COPEARMS, EVA, IESERV and
IMPRIMATUR projects, that a major event be held on March 21 and
22, 1997 to address this problem. The present proposal is for an
event* with two different components.
WHO SHOULD COME?
These meetings will be valuable to anyone interested in the
technical or operational aspects of electronic copyright
management systems should apply to come to these meetings. In
particular, technology developers, ECMS project partners,
IPR-related technology vendors and of potential users of ECMS
systems are particularly encouraged to apply for registration.
1. THE OPEN CONFERENCE - SECURITY & ACCESS FOR MULTIMEDIA
SERVICES
This event is sponsored by the Information Engineering
Programme (DGXIII) as an open concertation meeting held in
conjunction with the IMPRIMATUR and COPEARMS Projects (DGIII).
It is designed to be of general interest to organisations
embarking on the development of multimedia information services
and is intended to provide a forum for debate of key
business issues in the emerging information society.
Attendance is open to any interested party, not only
participants in EC sponsored projects, but also the
European multimedia industry in general and
representatives from the US or Japan. The objective of the
event is to provide a series of sessions with
specific focus on security, access, and EC sponsored
initiatives. Each session will be based around brief
presentations and ase study examples followed by a panel
discussion and questions. The whole day will be
conducted in Plenary session to ensure attendees have an
opportunity to gain maximum benefit from attendance.
The provisional agenda for the day is as follows:
08:30 - 09:30Registration
09:30-10:30 PLENARY - Chairman Mr. G. Stephenson
Chairs welcome:
Keynote address: The importance of IPR &
Security
Case Study:
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:30 PLENARY - Security
12:30-14:00 Lunch
14:30-15:45 PLENARY - Access: Copyright, Licensing
15:45-16:15 Coffee Break
16:15-17:00 PLENARY - EC Sponsored Initiatives
17:00 CLOSE
2. SIG ON ECMS INTEROPERABILITY
This will be a by invitation only workshop. It will be for any
group that has IPR hardware or software under development. This
would include both participants in EC sponsored projects, the US
and Japanese developers and commercial technology vendors, from
Europe, the USA and Japan. The object of the workshop will be to
discuss interoperability, to enable information exchange and
finally to facilitate software tool trading. It is proposed that
the meeting last an entire day, conducted through presentations
and parallel workshops, each on specific issue (see below). The
meeting should be conducted on a basis of some confidentiality to
encourage developers to share information in a more liberal
fashion.
The SIG will in particular address issues related to data
interchange between Electronic Copyright Management Systems and
the real world. Indeed, the objective is to facilitate the access
of the user of ECMS to different services in an open environment,
while preserving security.
The following issues will be dealt with:
* Interoperability between ECMSs developed independently from
each other on the basis of specific business models which trade
off security level against cost
* A standard format for describing electronic contracts. Such a
format would form a common ground of clauses of electronic
contracts and be valuable for any ECMS
* The need for gateways for exchanging data with external payment
services (e.g. e-cash) and with TTP servers (proofs of
transaction, directory of names, management of public encrypting
keys). To discuss this issue, organisations concerned with
Standard for Electronic Transactions - SET - should be involved
such as banks, credit cards companies, manufacturers of smart
cards. Gateways should give access to existing or foreseeable
services such as certification infrastructures.
* A standard classification and codification of data tattooing
techniques to be processed by an ECMS (recognition of watermarks,
recognition of labels, computation of digital signatures, etc.).
This would interest many vendors as a lot of products are coming
to the market.
The SIG agenda is as follows:
8.30-9.30 Registration
9.30-10.00 Plenary session with a keynote speaker on the
interoperability topic
10.00-10.30 Coffee break
10.30-12.30 Parallel sessions
- Interoperability between ECMS
- Standard format for electronic contracts
- Need for gateways with services and TTP
- Standard classification of data tattooing techniques
12.30-14.00 Lunch
14.30-15.30 Parallel sessions (continued)
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-16.50 Plenary session: reports from parallel sessions
17.00-17.30 Plenary session: conclusion of the SIG and public
presentation of EVA EC supported projects
REGISTRATION DETAILS
Both Days - 125 ECUs (160 US Dollars)
Day 1 only - 80 ECUs (110 US Dollars)
Day 2 only - 60 ECUs (80 US Dollars)
DISCOUNT FOR CULTURAL AND EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
Both Days - 65 ECUs (85 US Dollars)
Day 1 only - 40 ECUs ( 50 Dollars)
Day 2 only - 30 ECUs (40 US Dollars)
(Conversion date for ECU to National Currencies - January 1 1997)
DISCOUNT FOR INFORMATION ENGINEERING PROJECTS
as for cultural and educational institutions
Registrations forms should be sent to:
Vasari Enterprises Ltd.
Alexander House
50 Station Road
Aldershot GU11 1BG
UK
Phone : 44 1252 350780
Fax : 44 1252 342039
Email :jamesrhemsley@cix.compulink.co.uk
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REGISTRATION FORM
FLORENCE CONFERENCE ON INTER-OPERABLE ECMS
Title ____________________________________________________
Surname ____________________First Name __________________
Name ____________________________________________________
Organisation _____________________________________________
Job Title __________________________________________________
Address __________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________
Post Code _______________________ Country _________________
Phone ____________________________________________________
Fax ______________________________________________________
Email ____________________________________________________
Principal activity of your organisation (Please tick one)
Commercial/Government ______________
Cultural/Educational __________________
METHODS OF PAYMENT
N.B. Payments must be made in full and received by 14th March
Type of Registration (Ordinary or Discount) ___________________
Both Days _________________
Day One Only _____________
Day Two Only _____________
Total Payable ______________
Cheque/Bank Draft enclosed : ________________________to VASARI
ltd.
Please charge my Credit Card (delete as necessary)
Visa/Mastercard/American Express/
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Card Holders Name _____________________________________
Expiry Date _____________________________________
Signature _____________________________________
Card Bill Address if different from above
Amount _____________________________________
*This event forms part of EVA Florence.
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Date: Thu, 9 Jan 1997 12:53:02 -0500
From: David Green <david@cni.org>
Subject: NINCH Newsletter #5
N I N C H
Networked Cultural Heritage Newsletter
No. 5
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This newsletter is published through the NINCH-Announce listserv of the
National Initiative for a Networked Cultural Heritage. You are welcome to
distribute it freely, with due acknowledgments. It is also available in a
hyperlinked version on the NINCH web site, within two days of publication.
S U M M A R Y
1. WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION PASSES TWO COPYRIGHT TREATIES
GOVERNING PROTECTION OF ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
Of three copyright treaties considered by WIPO, a controversial database
treaty was rejected, while the other two passed, with some language
changes. Library and education delegates had mixed feelings about the
results while still strongly objecting to the U.S. Government's strategy of
bringing digital copyright issues before a world body before domestic
consensus on these issues has been reached.
2. PAUL EVAN PETERS MEMORIAL SERVICE
A memorial service for Paul Evan Peters will be held in Washington D.C. on
February 18, 1997. Details are forthcoming.
3. BODLEIAN LIBRARY/TOYOTA IMAGING PROJECT
Oxford University's Bodleian Library has released its first digital imaging
project, a collection of 8,000 images of transport and motoring material
from its John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera.
4. MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT ENCODING
A recent conference examined possible routes for developing a scheme to
successfully encode medieval manuscripts.
5. NEW STANDARDS FOR WEB-BASED INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL
Educom's new Instructional Management System will ensure that instructional
software developers will have a technical standard that allows modules to
be shared among institutions and across a wide range of technical
environments.
6. NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE AWARDS
The Winners of the 1996 NII Awards can be seen at the Awards Web Site. Next
year's awards will be global in scope.
7. MUSEUMS ON THE WEB
The January/February issue of Museum News, the magazine of the American
Association of Museums, has as its lead article a review by experts in the
field of the best Museum Web sites.
8. CONFERENCES
NINCH now has a community calendar listing conferences and other events at
<http://www-ninch.cni.org/calendar.html>. Two conferences recently noted:
* Digital Resources in the Humanities: Oxford, September 14-17.
* Fourth International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in
Museums (ICHIM97): Paris, September 1-5
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WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION PASSES TWO COPYRIGHT TREATIES
GOVERNING PROTECTION OF ELECTRONIC RESOURCES
Library and other nonprofit cultural heritage representatives returned with
mixed feelings from the recent WIPO Meeting that concluded in Geneva on
December 20.
Most were immediately relieved that a proposed treaty for a new system of
database protection (beyond copyright) was defeated. This had an extremely
loose and broad definition of what a database was and was seen by many as a
potential major obstacle to future free access to public domain material.
The proposed protection was over and beyond copyright protection for
"compilations of data or other material, in any form, which by reason of
the selection or arrangement of their contents constitute intellectual
creations," included in the new Copyright Treaty under Article 5.
Although the two other treaties passed (for "the Protection of Literary and
Artistic Works" and for the "Protection of The Rights of Performers and
Producers of Phonograms") there was sufficient emendation of the treaty
language to make library representatives feel there was an acceptable
movement towards a fair balance of interests. A press release issued
December 24 by the American Library Association cited legal counsel Adam
Eisgrau's sense that the treaties recognized the necessity of the extension
of limits on copyright, including fair use, into the digital environment.
Although Article 10 of the Copyright Treaty allows nations signing the
treaty to include limitations to copyright (e.g. the US "Fair Use"
understanding), this does not change the essential objection of many groups
to the strategy of considering international copyright protection of
digital material before there has been any widespread discussion and
successful domestic legislation of such protection.
The treaties now face ratification by the United States Senate before they
could be applied in the U.S. Meanwhile the domestic NII Copyright
Protection Act will also be under consideration.
Full text of the treaties is available on the NINCH Web site
<http://www-ninch.cni.org/NEWS/NEWS.HTML#WIPO>.
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PAUL EVAN PETERS MEMORIAL SERVICE
Plans are underway for a Washington D.C. memorial service for Paul Evan
Peters. The service will be held on February 18, 1997, during the period
when many in the field will be in Washington for the ALA Midwinter meeting.
The time and location have not yet been finalized, but this newsletter will
bring you details when available.
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BODLEIAN LIBRARY/TOYOTA IMAGING PROJECT
Oxford University's Bodleian Library has released its first digital imaging
project, a collection of 8,000 images of transport and motoring material
from its John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. The Collection as a
whole is one of the largest and most important collections of printed
ephemera anywhere in the world, containing over a million items in 700
subject headings, from 1508 to the present.
The Bodleian Library/Toyota Imaging Project
<http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/toyota/> focuses on 15 boxes of Motor Car
material, but much other transportation imagery is included.
Bibliographic material has been encoded using SGML and is conformant to the
Text Encoding Initiative's scheme; the SGML records are converted to HTML
for display on the Web. Visitors can browse the material by topics as well
as search by key words.
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MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPT ENCODING
Issues and problems surrounding the question of how to encode medieval
manuscripts (through the Text Encoding Initiative, the Encoding Archival
Description or a combination of both?) led Peter Robinson and Hope Mayo to
organize a conference this fall to consider what next to do.
Lou Burnard, of the Oxford University's Computing Services, has posted an
interim, personal account of the weekend conference held at Studley Priory,
in the depths of the Oxfordshire countryside. His account is available at
<http://users.ox.ac.uk/~lou/reports/9611stud.htm>.
Briefly, the meeting moved from reports of current practices through
demonstrations of related digital projects and presentations on MARC, TEI,
EAD and the Dublin Core to a collaborative identification of a key set of
descriptive categories that could be used in an SGML markup of medieval
manuscripts. Next steps will involve considering whether to map these
categories against MARC, TEI and EAD, for example, or to produce a new set
of guidelines. Details about an official report on the meeting will be
forthcoming.
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NEW STANDARDS FOR WEB-BASED INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL
As part of its National Learning Infrastructure Initiative (NLII), Educom
recently announced a new project, the Instructional Management System
(IMS). It will provide a set of higher-order standards and tools to enable
software developers, teachers and learners, to create, manage and access
the use of Web-based instructional software. The project will ensure that
instructional software developers will have a technical standard that
allows modules to be shared among institutions and across a wide range of
technical environments. For more information see
<http://www.iat.unc.edu/nlii/dcms/techmtng>.
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NATIONAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE AWARDS
The National Information Infrastructure Awards for 1996 can be seen at
<http://www.gii-awards.com>.
The awards are sponsored by government, industry and community
organizations and leaders and recognize "superior accomplishment in
applications of the Internet and information highway."
The winning sites are:
* Arts & Entertainment: CitySpace: Network Social Space of the Future
<http://cityspace.org>
* Business: The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition <http://wsj.com>
Children: Faces of Adoption: America's Waiting Children
<http://www.adopt.org/adopt>
* Community: Charlotte's Web <http://www.charweb.org>
* Education: The Jason VII Project Undersea Internet Site
<http://aquarius.eds.com>
* Government: NSF Fastlane Project <http://www.fastlane.nsf.gov>
* Health: Applied Informatics--Using the NII to Coordinate Healthcare
<http://www.cpmc.columbia.edu/appldinf
* Next Generation: Starbright World <http://starbright.org>
* ATT NII Telecollaboration: Electronic Cafe International
<http://www.ecafe.com>
* USPS NII Public Access: EPA.NET--East Palo Alto Gets Plugged In
In 1997 this awards program will go global to recognize achievements worldw=
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MUSEUMS ON THE WEB
In its January/February issue, Museum News, the magazine of the American
Association of Museums, gathers seven experts in the field to describe the
qualities that make for an outstanding museum Web site. Maxwell Anderson,
Ann Mintz, Diane Zorich, Stephen Borysewicz, Scott Sayre, Katherine
Jones-Garmil and Steve Dietz describe their top five choices that exemplify
those qualities.
The best first call for those interested in seeing Museums on the Web is
the Art Museum Network <http://www.amn.org> produced by the Association of
Art Museum Directors.
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CONFERENCES
Please note that NINCH now has a Calendar of relevant conferences available
on its web site <http://www-ninch.cni.org/calendar.html>. Please consult
the Calendar and email David Green (david@cni.org) with any additions.
These two conferences are of particular note:
1. DRH'97 (Oxford, England; Sept. 14-17, 1997)
Following the successful DRH'96, Digital Resources in the Humanities '97
<http://users.ox.ac.uk/~drh97> will be held at St. Anne's College, Oxford,
Sept.14-17, under the rubric of "bringing together the creators, users,
distributors and custodians of digital resources in the humanities."
This year it widens its catchment area by inviting not only scholars and
teachers but also publishers, archivists, librarians, curators, art
historians and others "wishing to improve both access to and conservation
of the digital information that characterizes contemporary culture and
scholarship."
Proposals are invited for papers, panels and reports on work in progress.
Abstracts (1500-2,000 words) are due April 7; final versions (2-4,000
words) will be required by July 7. Themes will include: the creation and
integration of digital resources; policies and strategies for commercial
and non-commercial electronic delivery; cataloging and metadata aspects of
resource discovery; pedagogic implications of digital resources and
electronic delivery; encoding standards; intellectual property rights;
funding, cost-recovery and charging mechanisms; digitization techniques and
problems.
The conference costs =A3225, which includes lunches and dinners. On-campus
accommodation will be available at =A345 for ensuite rooms and =A330 for
study/bedrooms with shared bathrooms. See the website for further details
and updates.
2. ICHIM97 @ LOUVRE.FR. Sept. 1-5, 1997
The Fourth International Conference on Hypermedia and Interactivity in
Museums (ICHIM97) will be held at the Louvre in Paris, September 1-5, 1997.
The focus will be on ways in which hypermedia and interactive experiences
can enhance museum visits and museum publications as well as serve as the
foundation for enhanced curatorship and scientific research.
Proposals for papers, sessions (1.5 or 3 hours) are due January 30, 1997.
Final versions are due May 15, in either French or English. Papers will be
published in an edited trade paperback edition. Themes will include: Museum
Content; Hypermedia Design; Interactive Publications; Installations; Museum
Applications; Evaluation; Collaboration; Legal and Societal Impacts,
including copyright, visual literacy & mediacy, the concept of museums,
economic models, training, etc.
A web site with conference details will be available in January 1997 at
www.archimuse.com/ichim97. Contact David Bearman, Conference Organizer,
dbear@archimuse.com
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