How ONIX-PL Can Help License Data Flow Todd Carpenter, NISO; Selden Durgom Lamoureux, SDLinforms; and Ashley Bass, ProQuest Presented at Charleston Conference 2013

1. Uncork Your Licenses!
How ONIX-PL Can Help License
Data Flow
Todd Carpenter
NISO
Selden Durgom Lamoureux
SDLinforms
Ashley Bass
ProQuest
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2. What do you get when you
cross a license and XML?
Answer: ONIX-PL
Todd Carpenter
Executive Director
National Information Standards Organization
(NISO)
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3. National Information Standards Organization
Non-profit industry association accredited by ANSI
Mission of developing and maintaining technical standards related to
information, documentation, discovery and distribution of
published materials and media
Represent US interests in information and documentation to the
International Organization of Standardization (ISO)
70 Voting Members, 108 LSA members as of 2013
25% libraries and library organizations
35% publishers and publishing organizations
40% library systems suppliers and other intermediaries
Staff: 4 professional full-time
Volunteers: 400+ spread out across the world
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4. Licenses are everywhere now
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5. Little wonder why we don’t read licenses
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6. Massive Investment
Libraries and
publishers invest a
tremendous amount
of time and energy
negotiating license terms
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7. Worthwhile investment?
Where do these
documents end
up after they
are signed?
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8. 1997: Early days of licensing
Source: http://www.clir.org/pubs/img/pub79fig3.gif
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9. DLF ERMI Workflows 2002-06
Differences
between print and
electronic workflow
As described in
initial ERMI report
Source:
http://www.diglib.org/pubs/dlf102/d
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10. E-Resources Management Initiative (ERMI)
Areas for exploration and development
recommended in ERMI reports:
– Management systems (Now ERMs)
– Management of usage data (SUSHI)
– Define license terminology (ERMI data dictionary)
– Training community on how to encode license
– Exchange of terms (LEWG - ONIX-PL)
– Cost-per-use calculation data (CORE)
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11. ERMI Terms of Use Fields
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Authorized User Definition
Local Authorized User Definition Indicator
Fair Use Clause Indicator
All Rights Reserved Indicator
Database Protection Override Clause
Indicator
Citation Requirement Detail
Digitally Copy
Print Copy
Scholarly Sharing
Distance Education
Interlibrary Loan Print or Fax
Interlibrary Loan Secure Electronic
Transmission
Interlibrary Loan Electronic
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Course Reserve Print
Course Reserve Electronic/ Cached
Copy
Electronic Link
Course Pack Print
Course Pack Electronic
Remote Access
Concurrent Users
Pooled Concurrent Users
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Other Use Restriction Note
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12. ERMI Permission Encoding
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Permitted (explicit)
Prohibited (explicit)
Permitted (interpreted)
Prohibited (interpreted)
Silent (no interpretation)
Not applicable
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13. License Interpretation
LICENSE AGREEMENT
Can the library use the
resource to fulfill Interlibrary
Loan requests?
LICENSE AGREEMENT
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LICENSE AGREEMENT
1. License:
i) blah blah…
!!?!
LICENSE AGREEMENT
ii) …you will not re-distribute
the materials retrieved from
1) blah libraries
the products to otherblah blah blah blah blah
or third parties… blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah
Notwithstanding the above blah blah
blah blah blah …
blah blah blah…..
5.2.3. Blah. blah blah blah. . . ….
4. PROHIBITED USES.
v)
5.2.4. Interlibrary Loan.
Licensee may not: restrictions, this license shall
Institution may not use
2) blah blah blah blah blah blah
a) blah blah…
not restrict your rights toblah blah blah blah
blah blah use
Electronic Titles for
blah blah…
of the materials under the
purpose of interlibrary sell, supply or
b)
loans.
otherwise distribute copyright law of the United
States and the doctrine of
5.2.4. More Blah. blah blah blah.
data retrieved from the
“fair
Licensed Resource to use.”
third parties;
Slide courtesy of Nathan Robertson,
U. Maryland Law Library
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c) blah blah blah….
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14. Benefits of License Encoding and Expression
• Encoding licenses, storing and sharing them in
an electronic format could allow:
– Increased awareness of the terms
– Easier to share terms with users
– Improved compliance with terms
– Clarity (if desired) about what is in a license
– Better, faster, and easier negotiation based on
clearer understandings (perhaps)
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15. What is ONIX?
ONIX is an acronym for ONline Information eXchange
Suite of XML Schemas for representing publishing industry
product information
ONIX - Books; ONIX - Serials; ONIX - RRO; ONIX - PL
Maintained by EDItEUR jointly with Book Industry
Communication (UK) & the Book Industry Study Group
User groups in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the
Netherlands, Norway, Spain and the Republic of Korea
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16. What is ONIX-PL?
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17. What is ONIX-PL, really?
• A structure for making the content of a license
machine-readable
• An XML format
• A tool to make license terms and conditions
more accessible
• Extensible so additional terms can be added
to dictionary in the future
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18. What ONIX-PL is not
• ONIX-PL is not a Rights Expression Language
• It is not designed to prevent/enable access to a piece
of digital content
• While it can express the content of a license, it is not
a license
• A complete ONIX-PL record isn’t required
• OPEN to interpretation
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19. How could one use ONIX-PL?
• Eliminate mapping and manual entry of
license terms into an ERM
• Improve user interface for easily accessing
terms
• Potential to simplify the process of license
negotiation
• Improve storage, sharing, public display
• Audit copy preservation
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20. NISO ONIX-PL Encoding Initiative
• Funded by the generous support of the
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
• Grant begun in February, 2013
• 13-month project
– Gather and encode up to 50 licenses
– Deposit encodings in public repositories
– Provide training on how to use them
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21. NISO ONIX-PL Encoding Initiative
• Rationale:
– If we can seed the community with template
licenses by undertaking the vast majority of the
core work, can we jump-start adoption?
Every negotiation starts with a template and
then tweaks them from there.
– Can’t we start with template encodings and tweak
them?
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22. ONIX-PL Encoding Initiative: Why?
• ONIX-PL Languishing in a Catch-22 situation
– No one to hear from, no one to call to
• Success of the KB+ encodings of the JISC
specific licenses for JISC members, but limits
• Availability of open repositories for these data
• Agreement by publishers to allow encodings
of templates
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23. Thank you!
Todd Carpenter, Executive Director
tcarpenter@niso.org
National Information Standards Organization
3600 Clipper Mill Road, Suite 302
Baltimore, MD 21211 USA
+1 (301) 654-2512
Fax: +1 (410) 685-5278
www.niso.org
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