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dc.contributor.advisorTim Berners-Lee.en_US
dc.contributor.authorSeneviratne, Oshani Wasanaen_US
dc.contributor.otherMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2010-03-25T18:53:10Z
dc.date.available2010-03-25T18:53:10Z
dc.date.copyright2009en_US
dc.date.issued2009en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/53327
dc.descriptionThesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2009.en_US
dc.descriptionThis electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.en_US
dc.descriptionCataloged from student submitted PDF version of thesis.en_US
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (p. 79-82).en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis focuses on methods for detecting and preventing license violations, in a step towards policy aware content reuse on the Web. This framework builds upon the Creative Commons (CC) Rights Expression Language, which provides a very clear and a widely accepted set of licenses grounded in Semantic Web technologies. These licenses are machine readable, and indicates to a person who wishes to reuse the content exactly how it should be used. An experiment on CC attribution license violations on Flickr images revealed the attribution license violation rate on the Web to be around 70-90% from samples of Websites that had at least one embedded Flickr image. Therefore, it is evident that there should be robust mechanisms for detecting license violations on the Web and prevent those happening, if possible. The primary objective is to enable the user to do the right thing instead of preventing the user from doing the wrong thing. As a solution, we have implemented (1) "Attribution License Violations Validator" for Flickr images and, (2) the more generic "Semantic Clipboard". The "Attribution License Violations Validator" can be used to validate users' work against any attribution license violation. The "Semantic Clipboard", which is implemented as a component of the Tabulator Firefox extension, allows the user to copy an image with its license metadata expressed in Resource Description Framework in annotations (RDFa) in the original source document to any other document.en_US
dc.description.statementofresponsibilityby Oshani Wasana Seneviratne.en_US
dc.format.extent82 p.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherMassachusetts Institute of Technologyen_US
dc.rightsM.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.en_US
dc.rights.urihttp://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582en_US
dc.subjectElectrical Engineering and Computer Science.en_US
dc.titleFramework for policy aware reuse of content on the WWWen_US
dc.title.alternativeFramework for policy aware content reuse on the WWWen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.description.degreeS.M.en_US
dc.contributor.departmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
dc.identifier.oclc550582069en_US


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