Machine Actionable Rights - Objects, Collections, Organisations - MAR-OCO

This draft working paper forms a part of ongoing work to address the activities and functions of FAIR-enabling trustworthy repositories and other data and metadata services, how they align with our catalogue of services, and how we develop information artefacts to guide our processes and to provide transparent evidence for assessment, compliance and certification. A key factor in supporting scalable, interoperable outcomes is the provision of key information in a machine actionable form, including rights management. Structured data models for rights management such as ODRL define permissions, prohibitions and obligations (and their ensuing workflows) of parties (and collections of parties) in relation to assets (such as digital objects) and collections of assets. This non-technical problem statement is intended to guide discussion on what existing standards can be adopted or adapted, and where new specifications need to be developed and agreed.