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licenseManager
Management of License
and Price Models for Geoservices
European SDI Service Center

licenseManager – Management of
License and Price Models for Geoservices
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The licenseManager component of sdi.suite is used
to define, organise and apply license and price
models within service-based Spatial Data Infrastructures.
It enables license-based access to geoservices
by enforcing agreement with user conditions, use
restrictions, and price/fee models, whenever a service
is accessed by a user.
licenseManager builds on the proven concept of sdi.suite
securityManager. It provides a tool with which license models
can be defined, and through which a user can then access
services. The license is concluded electronically and enforced
when the service is accessed. Price or usage-fee models can
be individually determined and assigned to commercially
offered geoservices. The price structure ranges from simple
flat rates to complex, use-dependent models (pay per use),
which also incorporate discounts and multiple-use reductions.
licenseManager can also be used to define user conditions
for freely accessible geoservices, for instance, explicitly
excluding the commercial use of services. This results in
what is known as a click-through license, which resembles
the method by which license conditions are accepted by
a user whenever they install a software program. It makes
it possible for both public and private service providers
to enforce agreement with users regarding license and
user conditions.
In the context of INSPIRE, licenseManager can also be
employed as an e-commerce service, as defined in Article
14 (4) of the INSPIRE guideline. Accordingly, it constitutes
an effective tool for institutions who wish to charge fees
for selected INSPIRE network services which they seek
to offer subject to the terms of an electronic licensing
agreement.
Similarly, the construction of shop solutions for geoservices
and their integration in geoportals is supported both by
the consistent application of standards and the modular
structure of licenseManager. In this way, licenseManager
offers a comprehensive, easy-to-use solution for regulating
license and user rights in service-based spatial data infrastructures.
Features Profile
> Consistent management of license and fee models
for geoservices
> A Web-based license editor for generating license
models, comprising user conditions, user rights and
price models
> A comprehensive range of options for defining license
authorisations for accessing services and URLs
> Support of fee models for geoservices based on the
ADV fee guideline
> Can be integrated into existing geoportals and security
solutions for geoservices
> User management includes optional integration of
LDAP and Active Directory
> Support for federations and single-sign-on (SAML 2.0)
> Based on the OGC Reference Model for Geospatial
Digital Rights Management (GeoDRM)
> Based on OASIS standards: SAML and XACML
> Flexible integration into existing infrastructures with
support for various authentication methods (SAML,
HTTP Basic Authentication)
Gesellschaft für Angewandte Informationstechnologie mbH
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