JOINArticle 4 DSM Directive
The ‘Article 4’ Task & Finish Group is a technically oriented group that has developed recommendations for the STM membership on common and consistent ways to implement the DSM’s Article 4 requirements so as to ensure that content is protected from unwanted commercial use for Text and Data Mining (TDM) purposes, as described in the legislation. The group builds on the work done on the TDMrep protocol in the context of the W3C community group.
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This Task & Finish Group is currently active.
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