

06 May 2009, 1:35pm
OGC are looking for participants to join the OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit on 22 June 2009 at MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA. The summit will be held in parallel to the OGC Technical Committee meetings and is open to everyone - participation from outside of the OGC community is particularly welcomed. The purpose of the summit is to reach out to other communities in this field in order to understand complementary perspectives and to exchange ideas.
OGC Geospatial Rights Management Summit
22 June 2009
MIT, Cambridge, Mass., USA
Provisional Agenda
Purpose: Enabling Licensing Models: connecting business with technical infrastructure for managing and protecting intellectual property.
10.00 Welcome and Introductions to Rights Management
- A brief history of GeoRM
11.00 Review of standards and approaches
- 10 min lightening talks:
Legal Aspects, Creative Commons, ISO REL, XACML…
GeoRM SWG Presentation – common issues on rights managing services
12.00 Panel Discussion
12.30-14.00 Lunch and networking
14.00 Commonality of Approaches
- Example application of licensing models – BIM/INSPIRE/Mobile Apps?
15.00 Workshop to generate ideas for enabling licensing models
16.00 Summary and Next Steps
- Moving from internal OGC process to public OGC Network approach
16.30 Close
Useful links - see below.
Geo Rights Management (GeoRM) Domain Working Group
Geospatial Digital Rights Management Reference Model

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