Re: Object identifiers

[Sally Morris <smorris@wiley.co.uk>]

At 16:06 16/03/98 UT, you wrote:
>John Erickson proposed an agreement registry or server which would hold many 
>to many relationships between agreements and registered objects with the 
>implication, I think, that the existence of an agreement for a particular 
>object could be used so that permissions for access to the object can be 
>verified. This sounds very much like the BODOS system that BIDS already has in 
>place and allows a aggregator to provide access to objects to a variety of 
>user sites which may have different agreements with individual rights owners 
>objects available on the aggregators system. There is no reason why this 
>agreements/permissions database can not be used by different aggregators.

Yes - indeed a number of aggregators of various kinds (and of course
individual publishers) have developed or are developing proprietary systems
to do this.   The problem is that we don't yet have an interoperable way of
describing such access rights (this is what people like FIRM and Xerox are
working on, and is of course the objective of this group)
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>Agreements may exist to cover DOIs which do not yet exist and the system will 
>need to either be kept up to date or the definition of the DOIs covered by the 
>agreement generic enough for the system not to block access to a site which 
>has an agreement covering an newly released object.

>Outside the relationship between owner and user, the same problem of 
>agreements covering many objects is likely to exist between trade partners.  
>Here I think that the management of agreements has to be under the direct 
>control of both parties on their own separate systems. Which need to allow for 
>agreements covering multiple objects some of which have yet to be produced.

This is one of the reasons for my suggestion that agreements should be able
to refer to a class or group of objects;  publishers could then classify
future objects, when they are released, as belonging to that class or group.
The same is of course true of classes or groups of people covered by the
agreement (e.g.'members of the university of x', which is a moving target!)

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Sally Morris
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