ShareAlike Your Data

Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Speiser

ShareAlike Your Data: Self-Referential Usage Policies for the Semantic Web

Abstract. Numerous forms of policies, licensing terms, and related conditions are associated with Web data and services. A natural goal for facilitating the re-use and re-combination of such content is to model usage policies as part of the data so as to enable their exchange and automated processing. This paper thus proposes a concrete policy modelling language. A particular difficulty are self-referential policies such as Creative Commons ShareAlike, that mandate that derived content is published under some license with the same permissions and requirements. We present a general semantic framework for evaluating such recursive statements, show that it has desirable formal properties, and explain how it can be evaluated using existing tools. We then show that our approach is compatible with both OWL DL and Datalog, and illustrate how one can concretely model self-referential policies in these languages to obtain the desired conclusions.

Published at ISWC2011 (Conference paper)

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• Markus Krötzsch, Sebastian Speiser. ShareAlike Your Data: Self-Referential Usage Policies for the Semantic Web. In Lora Aroyo, Chris Welty, Harith Alani, Jamie Taylor, Abraham Bernstein, Lalana Kagal, Natasha Noy, Eva Blomqvist, eds.: Proceedings of the 10th International Semantic Web Conference. SpringerProperty "Publisher" has a restricted application area and cannot be used as annotation property by a user. 2011.

@inproceedings{KS11:sharealike,
    author    = {Markus Kr{\"o}tzsch and Sebastian Speiser},
    title     = {{ShareAlike} Your Data: Self-Referential Usage
                 Policies for the {Semantic Web}},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th International Semantic
                 Web Conference (ISWC'11)},
    editor    = {Lora Aroyo and Chris Welty and Harith Alani and
                 Jamie Taylor and Abraham Bernstein and
                 Lalana Kagal and Natasha Noy and Eva Blomqvist},
    publisher = {Springer},
    series    = {LNCS},
    volume    = {7032},
    year      = {2011}
}

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There is also an extended technical report that reports the results of this work and that includes all proofs that did not fit the conference publication.

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Semantic Web