Mapping JISC model licences into ONIX PL Format
The project aimed to map the JISC NESLi2 Online Journals, Datasets, and Ebooks model licences into the ONIX for Publications Licenses (ONIX-PL) format, and to install the mapping into the ONIX-PL editing software that is being developed under a separate and parallel JISC-supported project.
Executive Summary
The first of the JISC model licences to be tackled was NESLi2. A substantially complete first draft mapping was prepared manually and was sent to JISC Collections at the beginning of January 2007, accompanied by a list of queries that had arisen. At the same time, an examination of the Dataset and Ebooks sub-licences showed that there were unlikely to be further issues specific to those models, although there was some inconsistency between NESLi2 and the others in the treatment of certain permitted usages.
The whole of this work took place in parallel with, and has significantly influenced, the continuing development of the ONIX-PL format and the ONIX-PL Dictionary of terms used in licence expressions. It is noteworthy that the JISC licences include some quite specific permissions that were neither part of the existing ONIX-PL vocabulary, nor part of the DLF ERMI vocabulary on which some existing Electronic Resource Management (ERM) systems are based. The ONIX-PL vocabulary has been extended to include these permissions but it remains for future work to determine how such permissions can best be managed within a subscribing institution, whether through an ERM system or by other means.