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A Semantic Web Approach to Digital Rights Management: Using Semantic Web technologies to build a Copyright Ontology and a Semantic Copyright Management System - Softcover

García, Roberto

 
9783639157406: A Semantic Web Approach to Digital Rights Management: Using Semantic Web technologies to build a Copyright Ontology and a Semantic Copyright Management System

Synopsis

The contribution of this work is to apply a semantic approach based on web ontologies to Digital Rights Management. The main result is the development of a copyright ontology. It models the copyright core concepts for creations, rights and the basic kinds of actions that operate on them through their value chain. The set of actions operating on content are the building blocks that combined cope with the complexity of the copyright domain. At the same time, their simplicity guarantees a high level of interoperability and evolvability. The resulting copyright modelling framework is flexible and complete enough to model many copyright scenarios, not just those related to the economic exploitation of content. Additionally, the ontology design and the selection of tools result in a straightforward implementation. Rights are modelled as classes of actions, action patterns are modelled also as classes and concrete actions are modelled as instances. Then, to check if some right or license grants an action is reduced to check for class subsumption and instance classification, which are the main functionalities of Description Logic reasoners.

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About the Author

Roberto García got his MSc. in Computer Science from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). His MSc. thesis, completed the year 2000, developed a distributed knowledge management system using Semantic Web technologies. Then, he completed a Master in E-Commerce and collaborated in the first steps of a web and interactive systems company before returning to the academic world. In 2001 he got a research assistant position at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and carried out his research in Semantic Web based multimedia and digital rights management. These research activities concluded with his PhD thesis in 2006 about a Semantic Web approach to DRM. He is now an assistant professor at the Universitat de Lleida (UdL). He is also member of the GRIHO Human-Computer Interaction and Data Integration research group, where he is combining his previous research lines with trying to get the Semantic Web in touch with real-world end-users.

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