Fwd: Open License Expression Working Group Charter in Development (Advance Notice)

This may be of interest for some of you (remember that something like that was raised as a necessity in the note on the metadata task force…)

Ivan

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> From: "Coralie Mercier" <coralie@w3.org>
> Subject: Open License Expression Working Group Charter in Development (Advance Notice)
> Date: 6 Aug 2015 13:56:17 CEST
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> Dear Advisory Committee Representative,
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> This is an advance notice that the Team is currently working with Members and the public on a proposed charter for an Open License Expression Working Group:
>  http://w3c.github.io/ole/charter.html
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> The expectation is to take the ODRL Community Group Final Specifications [1] through the W3C standardization process.
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> A license expression system will provide a flexible and interoperable information model that supports transparent and innovative (re)use of digital content across all sectors and communities. It is composed of detailed terms that are both machine-processable and expressible in a form for human-consumption.
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> Allowable actions, constraints, and requirements that need to be met are expressed at a level enabling complex and business-specific expressions to be created from a vocabulary with specific semantics. This form of license expression accommodates a broad range of licenses and addresses a different business/user need than systems such as Creative Commons that provide a small number of specific licenses.
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> The draft charter explicitly rules access control mechanisms and DRM out of scope.
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> We welcome your general expressions of interest and support on <w3c-ac-forum@w3.org>. If you wish to join the public discussion, please use the dedicated public list (archive [2]). If you have other input or questions, please contact Phil Archer <phila@w3.org>.
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> Subject to feedback received following this announcement, formal review of the charter may begin in late September.
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> This announcement follows section 6.2.2 of the Process Document:
>  http://www.w3.org/2014/Process-20140801/#WGCharterDevelopment
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> For Tim Berners-Lee, Director,
> Ralph Swick, Information & Knowledge Domain Lead,
> Phil Archer, Data Activity Lead;
> Coralie Mercier, Acting Head of W3C Marketing & Communications
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> [1] https://www.w3.org/community/odrl/
> [2] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-ole-comment/
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> Coralie Mercier  -  W3C Communications Team  -  http://www.w3.org
> mailto:coralie@w3.org +336 4322 0001 http://www.w3.org/People/CMercier/
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