Frames and Overflows in Rights Expression Languages

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  • February 28, 2019
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  • Hausman, Gary J.
    • Affiliation: School of Information and Library Science
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  • This paper analyzes the visions, schemas, and vocabularies of prominent rights expression languages, including Creative Commons, METS, ODRL, and MPEG-21. The paper extends Michel Callon's sociological insight that all forms of human agency are multiple and diverse. Callon argues, in the context of economic sociology, that one must constantly decide between a strategy emphasizing "framing" as the norm with "overflows" treated as leaks, or conversely a strategy accepting "overflows" as the norm with "framing" as inherently imperfect. Callon's categories are extended, through a modeling exercise, to the classification of current metadata schemes. The analysis suggests that metadata developers should explore what semantic choices and strictures are left out of metadata schemes, as well as those that are included. Such a thought exercise is especially useful in distinguishing areas suited for XML rights markup extensions.
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  • Greenberg, Jane
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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  • December 10, 2010

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