Rights Management Scenario

Web-Based Content: California Recall Election Project (DRAFT)

Introduction

The California Recall Election Project of the CDL captured a collection of web sites from the historic 2003 California gubernatorial recall election. 

Users and Uses

Preservation and access.

Characteristics

• Assurance/permissions obtained after content had been collected.
• No links outside of domain were followed.
• Depth?
• Content from:
  • Official candidate sites
  • Official California State sites
  • California county and local sites
  • Political interest groups
  • Commentary/humor sites specific to recall
  • Media sites, including news sites, captured
• Types of notification and response:
  • Descriptive web page outlining scope and purpose
  • Identification of owners, mailing of ‘opt-out’ notification
  • Procedures established for take-down
  • Notification of site removal
• Crawl composed of both single and periodic captures

Possible Problems

• No assurances for site content.
• Images, logos, etc., may not be owned by site.
• Consent is “passive”.
• Inline content, if outside of site boundaries, may not be captured.

Legal Issues

•  Fair use, in terms of copying large parts of web sites, has not been established

Data Requirements Issues

Forthcoming

Records Management Issues

Forthcoming.