PROCLAIM

Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:16:00 +0200

[proclaim] explores how machine-readable rights, provenance, and contextual constraints can be synchronised across journalistic archives and other claim-based knowledge systems. The project investigates how copyright, neighbouring rights, data protection, personality rights, editorial constraints, and public-interest exceptions can be represented in interoperable, machine-actionable workflows that remain trustworthy in AI-mediated information environments.

[proclaim] addresses a structural gap in journalism and public-interest media: the lack of interoperable, machine-readable rights, provenance, and contextual information that prevents journalistic archives from being lawfully reused, linked, and operationalised in AI-mediated environments.

[proclaim] develops and validates a provenance-aware workflow layer that enables continuous synchronisation of rights, provenance, and contextual metadata across journalistic archives, editorial systems, public records, and cross-border partner organisations. The objective is not to create a new publishing platform, but to make existing infrastructures work together through interoperable, machine-actionable metadata and policy frameworks aligned with CITF principles.

The use case focuses on environments where copyright, neighbouring rights, data protection, personality rights, court orders, editorial constraints, and public-interest exceptions must be managed simultaneously. Particular attention is given to the reuse of journalistic archives in investigative workflows, cross-border collaboration, and AI-assisted information retrieval.

Alignment with the CITF requirements: The project directly tests and implements several requirements from the CITF First Project (Annex 3), in particular:

Machine-readable rights expression: development of provenance-aware policy expressions aligned with ODRL and CITF recommendations
Interoperability across systems: enabling exchange of rights-relevant information between archives, editorial systems, repositories, and external authority infrastructures
Linking works, claims, events, and actors: improving identification, provenance tracking, and relationship modelling across heterogeneous information systems
Workflow integration: embedding rights, provenance, and contextual constraints into operational editorial, archival, and AI-assisted reuse processes The project also serves as a stress test for areas not yet fully addressed in existing rights frameworks, including context-dependent permissions, provenance preservation requirements, and constraints on decontextualised reuse of journalistic content.

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