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The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) Initiative is an international effort aimed at developing and promoting an open standard for rights expressions. ODRL is intended to provide flexible and interoperable mechanisms to support transparent and innovative use of digital content in publishing, distributing and consuming of digital media across all sectors and communities.

The ODRL Initiative governance is managed by the ODRL International Advisory Board.

ODRL Week - Nancy, France - 21 to 25 Sep 2009

The ODRL meetings are getting bigger and better this year and include:

• 21 Sept 2009 - ODRL Working Group Meeting
• 22 Sept 2009 - 7th International Workshop for Technical, Economic and Legal Aspects of Business Models for Virtual Goods and 5th International ODRL Workshop
• 23-25 Sept 2009 - 9th IFIP Conference on e-Business, e-Services, and e-Society

Current Working Groups:

• ODRL Version 2.0 Working Group
  Latest Requirements Document
  Latest ODRL Core Model
  Latest ODRL Core Metadata
• ODRL Services (ODRL-S) Profile Working Group
  Latest Working Draft

New ODRL Task Forces:

	A new Task Force to encode ODRL as RDFa is now under discussion.
	A new Task Force to encode ODRL as Microformats is now under discussion.

Community members interested in new ODRL vocabularies and technical solutions are invited to form new Profile Working Groups.

Completed Working Groups:

• ODRL Geospatial Profile Working Group
• ODRL Creative Commons Profile Working Group
  Final Specification
• ODRL DCMI Profile Working Group

ODRL/CC Profile

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