OnDisC stands for Online Distributed Content. The OnDisC Alliance is a consortium of content owners, private sector and institutional partners. Our mission is to test the distribution of digital content and account for its use in secure environments. OnDisC is developing and testing e-commerce models that enable users and producers to easily access the best digital content, while ensuring that owners receive fair compensation for their intellectual properties.OnDisC will:
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provide a complete end-to-end infrastructure for the distribution of digital learning materials – both new and legacy content; |
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provide the “missing links” that have created stumbling blocks for making valuable content available; |
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develop and test e-commerce models that give users access to the best available content and producers direct access to markets; |
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provide a mechanism for licensing copyright materials efficiently for inclusion in digital media applications; |
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integrate a comprehensive selection of media types including video, music, photographs, animations, simulations, graphics, CD-ROMs, and text into a single searchable catalogue that is convenient for students and teachers; |
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allow content to be distributed across the network wherever owners wish to place it, avoiding the costs and network bottlenecks inherent in single large stores of content; |
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trial the prototype system at educational institutions, making online digital media available to tens of thousands of students. The system will begin in Ontario and be extended across Canada. |
OnDisC will try to demonstrate the long-term sustainability and commercial demand for such infrastructure, bringing together rights holders and users. The OnDisC project should lead to the assembly of a critical mass of digital content available for inclusion in new media for use in teaching, online and offline (print and CD-ROM).
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