[2004-07-08] A call for volunteers to work on technical Profiles for ODRL. Full details at the ODRL Profiles web page.
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[2004-05-26] The US Library of Congress has released an review of common Rights Expression Languages (including ODRL) authored by Karen Coyle.
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[2004-03-15] Riccardo Pucella and Vicky Weissman from Cornell University have published A Formal Foundation for ODRL proposing formal semantics for ODRL.
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2003-12-22
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VirtuosoMedia has formally joined the ODRL Initiative. They develop and supply technology in the field of Secure Digital Rights Management.
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2003-09-07
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The Contract Enabled Server (CES) Project is an initiative at the Department of Information Systems at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. The CES Demo uses ODRL as the standard rights expression language for the interpretation and processing of digital contracts. Extensive publications on digital contracts are also available.
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2003-02-12
OpenIPMP also formally joins the ODRL Initiative Supporters
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OpenIPMP Open Source Rights Management Project have released the first version of their DRM software adhering to the ISO/MPEG-4 IPMP and ISMA streaming standards that utilises ODRL as the Rights Expression Language. Download the OpenIPMP Source from the project web site. This annoucement confirms one of the ODRL Initative's goal to support alternatives and compatibility with the MPEG-21 REL. |
2003-01-31
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Nokia have released the Content Publishing Toolkit V2.0 for creating ODRL content packages conformant to the OMA DRM specifications which can be downloaded from the Nokia Forum website. An example screen image of the application and sample ODRL OMA output is available.
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2003-05-28
The RoMEO Project has released two reports on publishing open access research papers and utilised ODRL as the rights language. The two studies are by Elizabeth Gadd, Charles Oppenheim, and Steve Probets on How academics want to protect their open-access research papers (RoMEO Studies 2) and How academics expect to use open-access research papers (RoMEO Studies 3).
2003-01-24 The COLIS Project has successfully demonstrated the use of ODRL across a number of Learning Object Management systems in the higher education sector. The COLIS Demonstrator - involving 5 Universities and numerous vendors - showed the value chain of rights-enabled learning objects as they were created, traded, and used by instructors and students. Additional technical details can be found in the Trading Learning Objects Conference Paper.
2002-11-07 A new report from Baskerville Executive Briefings about Mobile Content protection and DRM describes the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)
Standard - based on ODRL - analysing its impact on the mobile content retailing business in the medium and long term. The report overview can be accessed and ordered at their web site.
2002-10-23 ODRL has been formally approved by the Open Mobile Alliance (was the WAP Forum) as its Rights Language for all mobile content. Download the Final Approved Specification (Zip File).
2002-09-19 ODRL Version 1.1 has been published by W3C as an acknowledged Note. The W3C Team also published comments on the ODRL V1.1 Submission.
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