METADATA FOR RIGHTS MANAGEMENT
OF GOVERNMENT INFORMATION
CENDI Copyright Working Group Meeting
Government Printing Office
Washington, D.C.
March 22, 2004
PROGRAM
MEETING PURPOSE:
The CENDI Copyright Working Group advocates instituting polices and practices for government web site administration and content management to identify the intellectual property status of content and state the terms and conditions of its use. The intent is to:
- Guard the legal and financial rights of the government and the public;
- Respect and protect the IP rights of others;
- Reduce the burden of rights determination for content use, repurposing and preservation; and
- Promote a culture of IP awareness and responsibility within government and among citizens.
We recommend this be accomplished through:
- Copyright Affirmative Disclosure Notices (Terms & Conditions of Use) for Government Web Site Content. We recommend an evident notice similar to other upper level home page notices for Privacy, Security, 508 Compliance, and Data Integrity.
- Copyright Notices and Markings on Government Information. We recommend that ownership, government rights and terms and conditions of use be determined at the time of content creation or acquisition and this administrative information be marked and visibly discernable in the content front matter and captured in its metadata.
- The use of standardized rights metadata, Rights Expression Language (REL) and Rights Data Dictionaries (RDD). We recommend that rights metadata placeholders be inserted into content creation tools and templates. Further, we recommend that these placeholders eventually become mandatory elements to document and track changes in ownership, government rights, and other terms and conditions of use over time and as content falls into the public domain.
The CENDI Copyright Task Group was joined by members of the CENDI Content Management Working Group and the Federal Library and Information Center Committee (FLICC) Content Management Working Group .
MEETING AGENDA:
1. To Inform Policy: Interagency Committee on Government Information
Web Content Standards Working Group
Sheila Campbell, Senior Content Specialist, FirstGov.gov
Office of Citizen
Services and Communications, General Services Administration
Electronic Records Policy Working Group (ERPWG)
Nancy Allard, Senior Policy Specialist
National Archives
and Records Administration
Categorization of Information Work Group
Richard Huffine, Environmental Protection Agency
2. Why Care? (get
PowerPoint presentation - 734 KB)
Bonnie Klein, Program Manager for Copyrighted Information
Defense Technical
Information Center
Chair, CENDI Copyright Working
Group
3 . Metadata Basics and Standards (get
PowerPoint presentation - 110 KB)
James King, Naval Research Laboratory Library
Member:
FLICC Content Management Working Group
4. Attaching Rights to Content (get
PowerPoint presentation - 548 KB)
Larry Lannom, Corporation for National Research Initiatives
(CNRI)
