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This is a collection of documents in Word, PDF, PS and RTF formats. Except for
pdf06-weirdchars.pdf file, all the other documents are published at the 
Computer Science Department, Waikato University. The pdf06-weirdchars.pdf file
(METS: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) is distributed with permission 
from both the author and JISC (shown as below).


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> From: Gaynor Backhouse <[email protected]>
> Date: 31 May 2007 1:31:00 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: METS document TSW 02-05
> Reply-To: [email protected]
>
> Dear Ian
>
> You have indeed reached the contact for TechWatch, and as the  
> Project Manager, I am happy for you to
> use the report in the way you have described. Good luck with your  
> project!
>
> Best wishes,
> Gaynor Backhouse
> Project Manager, JISC Technology and Standards Watch
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>> ________________
>> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:21:28 +1200
>> From: Ian Witten <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: METS document TSW 02-05
>> To: [email protected]
>>
>> I would like permission to distribute a document, "METS: Metadata
>> Encoding and Transmission Standard," TSW  02-05, October 2002 (copy
>> attached to this email). The context of the request is explained in
>> my email to Richard below. He is  happy for us to distribute the
>> document, but thinks that JISC also holds copyright in it, which is
>> why I'm checking with you.
>>
>> Please let me know if this is OK, or who the correct contact is if
>> it's not you.
>> cheers
>> ian
>>
>>
>> Begin forwarded message:
>>> From: Richard Gartner <[email protected]>
>>> Date: 10 May 2007 10:31:59 PM
>>> To: Ian Witten <[email protected]>
>>> Subject: Re: METS document TSW 02-05
>>>
>>> Dear Ian,
>>>
>>> Nice to hear from you again! We haven't met since that conference
>>> in Ankara, but I have been very busy on the METS and Greenstone
>>> front ever since.
>>>
>>> I'm very happy for you to distribute the document - I think JISC
>>> also hold copyright in it, though, so perhaps you'd better check
>>> with them as well. They've given permission before, so there
>>> shouldn't be any problem. The current contact email for the TSW
>>> service seems to be [email protected], so I'd try
>>> there first.
>>>
>>> You'll be pleased to know that our Greenstone application at Oxford
>>> is finally publicly visible! It's at http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/
>>> odlcollections/ . Please feel free to add it to the list on your
>>> website.
>>>
>>> All the best,
>>> Richard
>>>
>>> Ian Witten wrote:
>>>> Richard, I would like your permission to distribute a document
>>>> that  you wrote, "METS: Metadata Encoding and Transmission
>>>> Standard," TSW  02-05, October 2002 (copy attached to this email).
>>>> The context of this request is rather an unusual one. I don't know
>>>> if  you remember me but I run the New Zealand Digital Library
>>>> project  (http://nzdl.org), which has produced the Greenstone
>>>> Digital Library  Software (httip://greenstone.org) which is widely
>>>> used around the  world, particularly in developing countries, and
>>>> is sponsored and  supported by UNESCO. Greenstone is open source,
>>>> distributed under the  GNU General Public License.
>>>> We run training courses for the Greenstone software, and are
>>>> producing a collection of Tutorial Exercises for people to use in
>>>> training courses and for independent study. We seek interesting
>>>> material to use as the basis for training exercises, and would
>>>> like  to use the above-named document for one of the exercises.
>>>> Again: the reason is an unusual one. This particular document is
>>>> a  rather strange PDF file: the text it contains is present in a
>>>> form  that is difficult for Greenstone to deal with. (Even if you
>>>> try  searching it using a regular PDF reader the results are
>>>> anomalous:  for example, only 10 occurrences of the word "the" are
>>>> found though  the document clearly contains far more). I'm not
>>>> concerned about the  reasons for this: the point is that we have
>>>> been using this document  in an exercise that points out to
>>>> Greenstone users that such problems  can occur and shows them how
>>>> to deal with them when they crop up in  their own collections.
>>>> We are about to distribute our Tutorial Exercises more widely, and
>>>> I  would like permission from you to use this document as an
>>>> example.  They will be available from our website, and also on a
>>>> CD-ROM  incorporating the Greenstone software that UNESCO will
>>>> distribute  freely in developing countries. All this stuff is
>>>> given away for  free; this is not a for-profit exercise (quite the
>>>> reverse!)
>>>> Would you object to our using this document in the way I have
>>>> outlined, and distributing it freely? I hope not.
>>>> I realize that copyright is a very complex business -- you
>>>> probably  know more about it than I do -- but it would be nice to
>>>> have a brief  email stating that our intended use is OK. In fact,
>>>> the people who  produce the UNESCO CD-ROM may require
>>>> documentation that we have  permission to reproduce all the
>>>> material on it.
>>>> Looking forward to hearing from you
>>>> ian
>>>> Ian H. Witten
>>>> Director, New Zealand Digital Library Project
>>>
>>
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