[18844] | 1 | Copyright Information
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| 2 | ----------------------
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| 4 | This is a collection of documents in Word, PDF, PS and RTF formats. Except for
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| 5 | pdf06-weirdchars.pdf file, all the other documents are published at the
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| 6 | Computer Science Department, Waikato University. The pdf06-weirdchars.pdf file
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| 7 | (METS: Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard) is distributed with permission
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| 8 | from both the author and JISC (shown as below).
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| 9 |
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| 10 |
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| 11 | ----------------------
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| 12 | > From: Gaynor Backhouse <[email protected]>
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| 13 | > Date: 31 May 2007 1:31:00 AM
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| 14 | > To: [email protected]
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| 15 | > Cc: [email protected]
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| 16 | > Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: METS document TSW 02-05
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| 17 | > Reply-To: [email protected]
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| 18 | >
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| 19 | > Dear Ian
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| 20 | >
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| 21 | > You have indeed reached the contact for TechWatch, and as the
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| 22 | > Project Manager, I am happy for you to
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| 23 | > use the report in the way you have described. Good luck with your
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| 24 | > project!
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| 25 | >
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| 26 | > Best wishes,
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| 27 | > Gaynor Backhouse
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| 28 | > Project Manager, JISC Technology and Standards Watch
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| 29 | >
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| 30 | >
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| 31 | > The JISC Technology and Standards Watch service is provided by
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| 32 | > Intelligent Content Ltd, a company
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| 33 | > registered in England and Wales with the registration number 5081330.
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| 34 | >
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| 35 | > Intelligent Content Limited
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| 36 | > 24 Heathcoat Building
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| 37 | > Nottingham Science and Technology Park
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| 38 | > University Boulevard
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| 39 | > Nottingham
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| 40 | > NG7 2QJ
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| 41 | >
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| 42 | > t: +44 (0)115 922 4600
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| 43 | > w: www.intelligentcontent.co.uk
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| 44 | > e: [email protected]
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| 45 | >
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| 46 | >> ________________
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| 47 | >> Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 14:21:28 +1200
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| 48 | >> From: Ian Witten <[email protected]>
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| 49 | >> Subject: Re: METS document TSW 02-05
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| 50 | >> To: [email protected]
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| 51 | >>
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| 52 | >> I would like permission to distribute a document, "METS: Metadata
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| 53 | >> Encoding and Transmission Standard," TSW 02-05, October 2002 (copy
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| 54 | >> attached to this email). The context of the request is explained in
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| 55 | >> my email to Richard below. He is happy for us to distribute the
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| 56 | >> document, but thinks that JISC also holds copyright in it, which is
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| 57 | >> why I'm checking with you.
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| 58 | >>
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| 59 | >> Please let me know if this is OK, or who the correct contact is if
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| 60 | >> it's not you.
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| 61 | >> cheers
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| 62 | >> ian
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| 63 | >>
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| 64 | >>
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| 65 | >> Begin forwarded message:
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| 66 | >>> From: Richard Gartner <[email protected]>
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| 67 | >>> Date: 10 May 2007 10:31:59 PM
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| 68 | >>> To: Ian Witten <[email protected]>
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| 69 | >>> Subject: Re: METS document TSW 02-05
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| 70 | >>>
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| 71 | >>> Dear Ian,
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| 72 | >>>
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| 73 | >>> Nice to hear from you again! We haven't met since that conference
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| 74 | >>> in Ankara, but I have been very busy on the METS and Greenstone
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| 75 | >>> front ever since.
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| 76 | >>>
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| 77 | >>> I'm very happy for you to distribute the document - I think JISC
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| 78 | >>> also hold copyright in it, though, so perhaps you'd better check
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| 79 | >>> with them as well. They've given permission before, so there
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| 80 | >>> shouldn't be any problem. The current contact email for the TSW
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| 81 | >>> service seems to be [email protected], so I'd try
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| 82 | >>> there first.
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| 83 | >>>
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| 84 | >>> You'll be pleased to know that our Greenstone application at Oxford
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| 85 | >>> is finally publicly visible! It's at http://www.odl.ox.ac.uk/
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| 86 | >>> odlcollections/ . Please feel free to add it to the list on your
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| 87 | >>> website.
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| 88 | >>>
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| 89 | >>> All the best,
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| 90 | >>> Richard
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| 91 | >>>
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| 92 | >>> Ian Witten wrote:
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| 93 | >>>> Richard, I would like your permission to distribute a document
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| 94 | >>>> that you wrote, "METS: Metadata Encoding and Transmission
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| 95 | >>>> Standard," TSW 02-05, October 2002 (copy attached to this email).
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| 96 | >>>> The context of this request is rather an unusual one. I don't know
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| 97 | >>>> if you remember me but I run the New Zealand Digital Library
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| 98 | >>>> project (http://nzdl.org), which has produced the Greenstone
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| 99 | >>>> Digital Library Software (httip://greenstone.org) which is widely
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| 100 | >>>> used around the world, particularly in developing countries, and
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| 101 | >>>> is sponsored and supported by UNESCO. Greenstone is open source,
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| 102 | >>>> distributed under the GNU General Public License.
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| 103 | >>>> We run training courses for the Greenstone software, and are
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| 104 | >>>> producing a collection of Tutorial Exercises for people to use in
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| 105 | >>>> training courses and for independent study. We seek interesting
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| 106 | >>>> material to use as the basis for training exercises, and would
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| 107 | >>>> like to use the above-named document for one of the exercises.
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| 108 | >>>> Again: the reason is an unusual one. This particular document is
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| 109 | >>>> a rather strange PDF file: the text it contains is present in a
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| 110 | >>>> form that is difficult for Greenstone to deal with. (Even if you
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| 111 | >>>> try searching it using a regular PDF reader the results are
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| 112 | >>>> anomalous: for example, only 10 occurrences of the word "the" are
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| 113 | >>>> found though the document clearly contains far more). I'm not
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| 114 | >>>> concerned about the reasons for this: the point is that we have
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| 115 | >>>> been using this document in an exercise that points out to
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| 116 | >>>> Greenstone users that such problems can occur and shows them how
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| 117 | >>>> to deal with them when they crop up in their own collections.
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| 118 | >>>> We are about to distribute our Tutorial Exercises more widely, and
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| 119 | >>>> I would like permission from you to use this document as an
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| 120 | >>>> example. They will be available from our website, and also on a
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| 121 | >>>> CD-ROM incorporating the Greenstone software that UNESCO will
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| 122 | >>>> distribute freely in developing countries. All this stuff is
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| 123 | >>>> given away for free; this is not a for-profit exercise (quite the
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| 124 | >>>> reverse!)
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| 125 | >>>> Would you object to our using this document in the way I have
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| 126 | >>>> outlined, and distributing it freely? I hope not.
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| 127 | >>>> I realize that copyright is a very complex business -- you
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| 128 | >>>> probably know more about it than I do -- but it would be nice to
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| 129 | >>>> have a brief email stating that our intended use is OK. In fact,
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| 130 | >>>> the people who produce the UNESCO CD-ROM may require
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| 131 | >>>> documentation that we have permission to reproduce all the
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| 132 | >>>> material on it.
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| 133 | >>>> Looking forward to hearing from you
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| 134 | >>>> ian
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| 135 | >>>> Ian H. Witten
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| 136 | >>>> Director, New Zealand Digital Library Project
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| 137 | >>>
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| 138 | >>
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| 139 | >> ________________
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| 140 | >> document.pdf (1131k bytes)
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