Re: Scanning licenses

[Curtis Lavery <laveryc@sbcglobal.net>]

Yes, I think ONIX will be very useful.  Our primary purpose for 
scanning licenses is not for communicating licensing terms 
(hopefully, our ERMS will handle that well), but to archive a 
surrogate for a fully executed document that contains the 
original signature of each party's legal authority.  That 
signature becomes very important for auditors and others in 
establishing the validity of, in particular, very large 
contracts.  I think we all look forward to a tool that will 
express licensing terms clearly, but will also have the 
flexibility to accommodate for unique instances and substantial 
narrative detail.

Curtis Lavery
Calif. Digital Library

"Sally Morris (ALPSP)" <sally.morris@alpsp.org> wrote:

I wonder whether readers of this list are aware of the project 
'ONIX for licensing terms' which might make mere scanning of 
licences unnecessary, by instead expressing in machine-readable 
terms (rather, if you like, in the way that Creative Commons does 
for its user licences) the terms and conditions of customer 
licences for e-journals and other publications.  See 
http://www.editeur.org/onix_licensing.html for more details

Sally Morris, Chief Executive
Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers
South House, The Street, Clapham, Worthing, West Sussex BN13 3UU, UK
Email:  sally.morris@alpsp.org