[Odrl-version2] Core Model: Roles, Parties and Assets

[David Martin]

Renato,

This crops up all the time in licensing of electronic resources to 
academic libraries, often in connection with what ONIX would call an 
"Include" permission.  For example: "include licensed content part in 
printed course pack" or "include licensed content part in digital 
instructional material" or include licensed content part in academic 
work" (such as a thesis or dissertation).  The asset (or, in ONIX 
language, resource) used is a licensed content part, and there is 
another ("target") asset or resource which is the thing in which a copy 
of the original asset may be included.

But I'm sure this sort of requirement isn't going to be limited to 
library licences.

It's probably also worth noting in this connection that in general ONIX 
tries to work with a limited number of "primitive" action types, and 
builds up more specific actions by combining them with other entities. 
One could take the approach of defining "portmanteau" action types for 
some of these things, but that would limit the flexibility and 
generality at which ONIX is aiming.  However, the ONIX approach will 
tend to demand a richer vocabulary of qualifiers.

Does that help?

David

In message <D9163909-CDBC-413D-A909-0657F5CC6792 at odrl.net>, 
"ri at odrl.net" <ri at odrl.net> writes
>On 6 Nov 2010, at 02:54, Francis Cave wrote:
>  3. Given the rationale for allowing multiple Parties associated with a
>  Permission / Prohibition, by analogy would it not make sense to allow
>  multiple Assets to be associated with a Permission / Prohibition, with
>  the Role entity used to define the association between Permission /
>  Prohibition and Asset? This would make it possible to express such
>  things as “it is permitted/prohibited to perform Action X on Asset A,
>  where Action X involves Asset B”. The fact that this would also improve
>  the symmetry of Figure 2.1 is a bonus, but probably not significant.
>Francis - can you give a real-world-ish example of the above? 
>It is not clear in my mind (at the moment!)
>Cheers
>Renato Iannella
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