Reaction and questions to new docs

Dear ODLR group,

First: congrats to this group for having made such progress!
I've followed the ODRL work from quite far away so far, but am always been interested, and the new documents are a great step forward.

Keeping it short: I am contacting you on behalf of this project: http://dp.la/info/about/projects/getting-it-right-on-rights/
We're trying to solve some modeling issues on rights statements, and ODRL is one of our relevant sources.

But it is really not easy for us understand how to use ODRL, even with the enhanced documentation.

One example is for representing human-readable labels and definitions for Policies.
https://www.w3.org/community/odrl/model/2.1/#section-21 says
[Other attributes MAY be added to the Policy entity to support additional functions and requirements. Typically, these will be from different community vocabularies. For example, to indicate the issued date or valid dates of the Policy entity, use of the Dublin Core Metadata Terms would be recommended.
]
This sounds like this would suits the case of labels and documentations, but still it's surprising to find nothing in the current ODRL given that these use cases seem quite fundamental.

Another example is that we want to express right statements like "an organisation has been allowed to authorise educational uses"
but we have not much clue how to do it in ODRL really. Would "educational" be an ODRL Profile?
This is difficult to assess as it's unclear where profiles are documented. The Common vocabulary https://www.w3.org/community/odrl/vocab/2.1/ says "see also Section 3 Profiles" but there's no such section anywhere. Which is rather surprising to find *after* the closing of a call for comments by the way.

In general the documentation suffers from the fact that some features have no concrete examples. A lot has been done already, and it's really good that it's been done for the different serialization. But we still miss something that would show profiles, and maybe situations like the Core Model's example “Alice is forbidden to use abc.mp3 commercially”.

If it is too late for you to answer such things now that you've closed the call for comments, we'd understand of course.
If you're happy with happy with this kind of conversation, we will probably come with more questions in the very near future.

Best regards,

Antoine

[1] http://dp.la/info/2014/03/18/getting-it-right-on-rights/

Received on Sunday, 8 March 2015 14:24:38 UTC