Content Rights Management

Definition

Content Rights Management

the content management task during which the rights of users to access, copy, modify, delete, print, or transmit content is defined and controlled

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Content Rights Management is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Task
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical responsibilities of Content Rights Management are to:

• Identify content with associated digital rights that must be controlled.
• Partition the users into equivalence sets based on their rights to various parts of the content.
• Develop metadata about the external content and store it in the content metadata database of the content management system.
• Acquire the external content from the external content sources.
• Reformat and store the external potential content in the draft content database of the content management system.

Preconditions

Content rights management typically can begin when the following preconditions hold:

• The construction phase has started.
• The initial conventions for content acquisition (e.g., guidelines, standards) have been produced during the process engineering activity.
• The following documents are largely complete and are relatively stable:
  • System Requirements Specification
  • Glossary
  • Domain Model Document
  • Information Architecture Document
  • Database Design Document
  • Human Interface Design Document
• The content management team has been adequately staffed with content entry clerks who have been adequately trained in content acquisition.

Completion Criteria

Content rights management is typically complete when the following postconditions hold:

• All required external content has been acquired.
• The retirement phase has started.

Steps

Content rights management typically involves the following teams performing the following steps in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Content Management Team:
  • Determine the content rights management by reading and understanding the associated:
    • Informational (data) requirements in the:
      • System Requirements Specification
      • Glossary
      • Domain Model Document
    • Information architecture:
      • Information Architecture Document
    • Content design:
      • Database Design Document
      • Human Interface Design Document
  • Identify the different subsets of content that have associated digital rights that must be controlled.
  • Partition the users into equivalence sets based on their rights to these subsets of the content.
  • Update the content‘s metadata with the access equivalence set.
  • Update the authorization software to base user authorization on a combination of user data and this metadata.

Techniques

Content rights management can typically be performed using the following techniques:

• Authentication patterns.

Work Products

Content rights management typically results in the production of the following work products:

• Data Components:
  • Content Metadata

Guidelines

• Content rights management should be performed iteratively, incrementally, and in parallel with other content management tasks.
• Content rights management is only required for content with associated digital rights.