Here's a novel application of database access rules which might be characterized as DRM. The BBC reported last week that access to an archive of images and other information related to aborigines is keyed to the user's profile in order to maintain culturally defined rules and taboos.
Dr Kimberly Christen, who helped to develop the archive, told BBC World Service's Digital Planet programme that the need to create these profiles came from community traditions over what can and cannot be seen.
"It grew out of the Warumungu community people themselves, who were really interested in repatriating a lot of images and things that had been taken from the community," she said.
Further commentary can be found on the History Hacks blog here.
