Information Technology Reference
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17.8.1 DRM - Digital Rights Manager Interfaces
Component name
CASPAR Digital Right
Manager
Component acronym
DRM
The component provides basic services to deal with digital
rights, in particular registering provenance information on a
digital work and to derive the existing Intellectual Property
Rights from them.
Functionalities:
1. Registration of the creation history (part of the Digital
Provenance)
2. Derivation of all the existing Intellectual Property
Rights from the creation history
3. Export of the Intellectual Property Rights information
in terms of the Digital Rights Ontology
Challenge: The Intellectual Property Rights should be
preserved along with the creative content, and represent one
part of the PDI (Preservation Description Information) of a
Content Data Object. To that purpose the DRM allows to
export rights information in terms of instances of the Digital
Rights Ontology. The ontology has been chosen as a
suitable way to express information that should be
preserved in the long term.
For further information see [
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]
Component description
Component interfaces
•
RightsDefinitionManager - allows to register
provenance information on digital works and to
retrieve right holding information and IPR
•
DRM.war - web service
•
DRM-stub.jar - client library to access DRM web service
caspar-framework-client-libs - common CASPAR client
library to access any CASPAR key component (includes
jax-ws libraries)
Component artefacts
Component UML diagram
•
RightsDefinitionManager Interface - see Fig.
17.19
•
DRM Conceptual Model - see Fig.
17.20
Component specification
DRM-Spec-Ref-1.1.pdf [
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Component author
MW - Metaware (Italy)
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