Re: TDM RESERVATION PROTOCOL COMMUNITY GROUP

On 2021-01-22 08:06, Laurent Le Meur wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Please be aware of the creation of the TDM Reservation Protocol CG.
> 
> The goal of this Group is to facilitate Text and Data Mining (TDM) in
> Europe and elsewhere, by specifying a simple and practical
> machine-readable solution, capable of expressing the reservation of
> TDM rights - following the rules set by the new European DSM Directive
> / Art.4 - and the availability of machine-readable licenses for TDM
> actors.
> 
> The entry page for the CG is https://www.w3.org/community/tdmrep/ :
> you can join the Group from there.
> A Github space has been setup at
> https://github.com/w3c/tdm-reservation-protocol and will be used for
> working documents and issues.
> 
> You'll find here a document [1] explaining why the Federation of
> European Publishers and national publishers bodies (especially AIE
> Italy and SNE France) have created this CG, which should become a
> forum where publishers and TDM actors meet and build a technical
> solution which will ease TDM worldwide.
> 
> EDRLab is acting here as a facilitator between publishers (who are not
> experts in technologies) and developers of TDM tools (who are not
> experts in publishing and copyright matters). Draft requirements from
> the publishing industry will be validated, international use cases
> will be refined and we hope that a simple but effective technical
> solution can be designed before the summer.
> 
> Best regards
> Laurent Le Meur
> EDRLab
> 
> Links:
> ------
> [1] 
> https://www.w3.org/community/tdmrep/2021/01/21/context-of-the-initiative/
This is an excellent and important development, Laurent! Thanks!!--Bill
-- 
Bill Kasdorf
Principal, Kasdorf & Associates, LLC
Founding Partner, Publishing Technology Partners
W3C Global Publishing Evangelist
bill.kasdorf@w3.org

Received on Friday, 22 January 2021 15:31:53 UTC