Subject:
Conference announcement below for your information.
NEWS RELEASE
E-commerce metadata conference for Sydney 2000
A conference reporting on the latest developments in developing a
"Putting works to rights" will showcase the work of the two-year
The key to the <indecs> schema is agreement on common standards
<indecs> is supported by 11 international partners, including
Together, the project’s partners and affiliates represent the creators,
These organisations recognise that, in the network environment,
Who should attend?
The conference will present the <indecs> metadata model for
a.. Copyright specialists
b.. Digital library managers
d.. E-commerce specialists
f.. Electronic publishers
h.. Electronics manufacturers
j.. Government policy makers
l.. Internet broadcasters
Conference details
Date
a.. Thursday 9 March and Friday 10 March 2000.
a.. The Wentworth Hotel, Phillip Street, Sydney.
For more information or to register, please telephone Copyright
Info on <indecs>
What will <indecs> produce?
<indecs> will deliver a series of proposals for standardisation, the
The intention is also to build an international consensus in support of
<indecs> will not be delivering or piloting any specific technology
What makes <indecs> different from similar initiatives?
Most other projects have concentrated on a specific part of the overall
Although different sets of data may be required for different purposes,
How does <indecs> relate to other standards initiatives?
<indecs> is not seeking to supplant existing standards for the
Media contact:
Charles Maddison Phone: 02 - 9394 7684
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From: "Charles Maddison" <cmaddison@copyright.com.au>
To: <cmaddison@copyright.com.au>
Subject: CONFERENCE: managing online IP commerce
Date sent: Tue, 21 Dec 1999 18:18:55 +1100
21 December 1999
metadata schema for trading intellectual property online will be held in
Sydney in March 2000.
<indecs> metadata project, an international effort to generate a formal
structure for describing and uniquely identifying intellectual property,
the people and businesses involved in trading IP, and the agreements
they
make about their trades.
to govern the interoperability of data in e-commerce systems,
providing the foundation for online commercial transactions for
copyright works in all media including text, audio visual, music and
multimedia works.
Australia’s Copyright Agency Limited. The conference will be hosted
by the Australian Copyright Industry Alliance (ACIA).
producers and distributors of a significant proportion of the global
intellectual property domain.
differences between different types of intellectual property – text,
graphics, sound, still and moving pictures – become largely irrelevant.
In
supporting the <indecs> project, they share a vision of the requirement
for interoperability between systems designed to support different
types
of content which have in the past been managed in distinct and
different
ways.
discussion and feedback, and is targeted to people with either
technical or operational interests in the use of metadata processes to
enable the exploitation of content in the digital environment.
a.. Internet business managers
c.. National standards organisations
e.. Rights holders
g.. Rights managers
i.. Standards consortia members
k.. Technology developers
Venue
More information
Agency Limited on: 61 - 2 - 9394 7600 or email
info@copyright.com.au
most
significant of which will be derived from the data model itself, along
with guides to its implementation. These will be supported by high-
level
specifications of related services.
the application of the <indecs> schema to managing commerce in
intellectual property in the network environment.
application of the model. It is a principle of the project that the model
should be entirely independent of any application.
requirement for metadata – focussing either on a specific use for the
metadata (discovery, for example) or a single type of intellectual
property (like music).
many of the data elements required, for example, for the "discovery" of
intellectual property are identical to those required to manage other
aspects of the process of delivery from creator to user. This is
intuitively obvious, even though in the "real world" it has become
commonplace to use completely different sources for this data.
description of intellectual property in different "domains". Its aim is to
establish a method for interoperation between them.
Media Affairs Officer
Copyright Agency Limited