Referent tracking for Digital Rights Management. (10th September 2007)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Ceusters, Werner; Smith, Barry
• Is Part Of: International journal of metadata, semantics and ontologies. Volume 2:Number 1(2007)
• Page Start: 45
• Page End: 53
• Publication Date: 2007-09-10
• Subjects: referent tracking -- digital rights management -- DRM -- digital object identifier -- DOI -- healthcare -- life sciences; Metadata -- Periodicals; Semantic Web -- Periodicals; Ontologies (Information retrieval) -- Periodicals; Data structures (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Information theory -- Periodicals; 005.74
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-2621

Abstract

Digital Rights Management (DRM) covers the description, identification, trading, protection, monitoring and tracking of all forms of rights over both tangible and intangible assets. The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) system provides a framework for the persistent identification of entities involved in this domain. Although the system has been very well designed to manage object identifiers, some important questions relating to the creation and assignment of identifiers are left open. The paradigm of a Referent Tracking System (RTS) recently advanced in the healthcare and life sciences environment is able to fill these gaps. This is demonstrated by pointing out inconsistencies in the existing DOI models and by showing how they can be corrected using an RTS.