Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
A way is needed to be able to handle the link between the rights and restrictions
originally associated with the digital object and the legal system under which it
is eventually used.
24.6.4.1 Next Steps
•
Share information on how constraints, which DRM (Digital Rights Management)
systems possibly impose on preservation planning and preservation actions, can
be handled under different and changing legal systems
•
Develop a dark archive for holding tools to generate licences, which would only
be used if and when the commercial supplier is unable to provide this capability
24.6.4.2 Final Destination
•
Registry of/Clearinghouse for rights information and dark archive of licensing
tools
24.6.4.3 Relevant Policies, Organisations, Activities
•
CASPAR (
http://www.casparpreserves.eu/
), ARROW (Accessible registries
of rights information and orphan works towards Europeana) (
http://www.
arrow-net.eu/
), nestor (
http://www.langzeitarchivierung.de/
), KoLaWiss (
http://
kolawiss.uni-goettingen.de
)
24.6.5 Persistent Identifiers
Need an ID resolver which is really persistent:
There is no shortage of things which are claimed to be Persistent Identifier
systems. The issues associated with these are the scalability of the solutions and
the longevity of the underlying organisational structure. A name resolving system
whose persistence is guaranteed by an international, government based organisa-
tion is needed. This could build on one or more existing name resolving systems,
strengthening the organisational structures underpinning the resolver.
SCENARIO
A researcher reads a paper in a journal which refers to a dataset which he
realises can be re-analysed and combined with some new data he has recently
obtained. The paper has an identifier string for the dataset which after some
investigation he sees is some sort of a “persistent identifier”. Unfortunately the
originator of that system is long gone, the DNS entry for the identifier name
