Performative digital asset management: To propose a framework and proof of concept model that effectively enables researchers to document, archive and curate their non-traditional research data

This cross disciplinary study was conducted as two research and development projects. The outcome is a multimodal and dynamic chronicle, which incorporates the tracking of spatial, temporal and visual elements of performative practice-led and design-led research journeys. The distilled model provides a strong new approach to demonstrate rigour in non-traditional research outputs including provenance and an 'augmented web of facticity'.

Enforcing P3P policies using a digital rights management system

The protection of privacy has gained considerable attention recently. In response to this, new privacy protection systems are being introduced. SITDRM is one such system that protects private data through the enforcement of licenses provided by consumers. Prior to supplying data, data owners are expected to construct a detailed license for the potential data users. A license specifies whom, under what conditions, may have what type of access to the protected data. The specification of a license by a data owner binds the enterprise data handling to the consumer’s privacy preferences. However, licenses are very detailed, may reveal the internal structure of the enterprise and need to be kept synchronous with the enterprise privacy policy. To deal with this, we employ the Platform for Privacy Preferences Language (P3P) to communicate enterprise privacy policies to consumers and enable them to easily construct data licenses. A P3P policy is more abstract than a license, allows data owners to specify the purposes for which data are being collected and directly reflects the privacy policy of an enterprise.

Location constraints in digital rights management

Digital rights management allows information owners to control the use and dissemination of electronic documents via a machine-readable licence. This paper describes the design and implementation of a system for creating and enforcing licences containing location constraints that can be used to restrict access to sensitive documents to a defined area. Documents can be loaded onto a portable device and used in the approved areas, but cannot be used if the device moves to another area. Our contribution includes a taxonomy for access control in the presence of requests to perform non-instantaneous controlled actions.

Digital rights management

Digital rights management allows information owners to control the use and dissemination of electronic documents via a machine-readable licence. Documents are distributed in a protected form such that they may only be used with trusted environments, and only in accordance with terms and conditions stated in the licence. Digital rights management has found uses in protecting copyrighted audio-visual productions, private personal information, and companies' trade secrets and intellectual property. This chapter describes a general model of digital rights management together with the technologies used to implement each component of a digital rights management system, and desribes how digital rights management can be applied to secure the distribution of electronic information in a variety of contexts.

Using digital rights management for securing data in a medical research environment

We propose a digital rights management approach for sharing electronic health records in a health research facility and argue advantages of the approach. We also give an outline of the system under development and our implementation of the security features and discuss challenges that we faced and future directions.

Electronic Document Management in Construction – Research Issue and Results

Electronic document management (EDM) technology has the potential to enhance the information management in construction projects considerably, without radical changes to current practice. Over the past fifteen years this topic has been overshadowed by building product modelling in the construction IT research world, but at present EDM is quickly being introduced in practice, in particular in bigger projects. Often this is done in the form of third party services available over the World Wide Web. In the paper, a typology of research questions and methods is presented, which can be used to position the individual research efforts which are surveyed in the paper. Questions dealt with include: What features should EMD systems have? How much are they used? Are there benefits from use and how should these be measured? What are the barriers to wide-spread adoption? Which technical questions need to be solved? Is there scope for standardisation? How will the market for such systems evolve?

Use of Document Management Systems - a Case Study of the Finnish Construction Industry

Triggered by the very quick proliferation of Internet connectivity, electronic document management (EDM) systems are now rapidly being adopted for managing the documentation that is produced and exchanged in construction projects. Nevertheless there are still substantial barriers to the efficient use of such systems, mainly of a psychological nature and related to insufficient training. This paper presents the results of empirical studies carried out during 2002 concerning the current usage of EDM systems in the Finnish construction industry. The studies employed three different methods in order to provide a multifaceted view of the problem area, both on the industry and individual project level. In order to provide an accurate measurement of overall usage volume in the industry as a whole telephone interviews with key personnel from 100 randomly chosen construction projects were conducted. The interviews showed that while around 1/3 of big projects already have adopted the use of EDM, very few small projects have adopted this technology. The barriers to introduction were investigated through interviews with representatives for half a dozen of providers of systems and ASP-services. These interviews shed a lot of light on the dynamics of the market for this type of services and illustrated the diversity of business strategies adopted by vendors. In the final study log files from a project which had used an EDM system were analysed in order to determine usage patterns. The results illustrated that use is yet incomplete in coverage and that only a part of the individuals involved in the project used the system efficiently, either as information producers or consumers. The study also provided feedback on the usefulness of the log files.

INFO2009 Assignment 2 (Group 11) - An Interactive Tutorial on Digital Rights Management

This resource contains an interactive tutorial slide, a set of multiple choice questions and a poster that Group 11 composed for INFO2009 Assignment 2. The topic area for the resource is Digital Rights Management.

Digital rights management, concorrência e acesso ao conhecimento no mercado de livros digitais

Os livros digitais facilitam o acesso aos livros, por meio de fatores como a diminuição de barreiras geográficas e financeiras, constituindo um importante instrumento para a promoção do acesso ao conhecimento no século XXI. Como forma de combater a pirataria na rede, os ebooks são protegidos por digital rights management (DRM), uma trava tecnológica que permite que os titulares de direitos autorais protejam seus direitos por meio do controle do que os usuários conseguem fazer com os arquivos digitais. O DRM pode determinar variáveis como em quais circunstâncias, quantas vezes, por quanto tempo e em quais plataformas o um arquivo pode ser acessado. Essa trava, por sua vez, é protegida por leis anticircunvenção que proíbem que os usuários a alterem ou a removam. Em regra, essas leis não exigem que a arquitetura dos sistemas de DRM observe os mesmos limites e exceções impostos ao direito autoral. Por conta disso, é possível que os sistemas de DRM estabeleçam novas regras para o uso de trabalhos artísticos, que ultrapassam a proteção conferida pelas leis de propriedade intelectual. No mercado de livros digitais, tais regras têm um impacto particular na concorrência. Uma vez que as livrarias usam diferentes sistemas proprietários de DRM em seus livros digitais, compatíveis com um número limitado de dispositivos de leitura, o leitor enfrenta problemas de interoperabilidade para adquirir e-books em uma loja diferente daquela em que seu dispositivo de leitura foi comprado. Essa baixa interoperabilidade vincula os leitores a um determinado ecossistema e aumenta os efeitos de rede, custos de mudança e barreiras à entrada nesse mercado, propiciando a concentração. Como resultado, as livrarias são capazes de exercer um grande poder sobre o fluxo de informações nesse mercado, minando o potencial dos e-books para difundir o conhecimento e promover a leitura. Assim, esta pesquisa examina como os sistemas de DRM e as normas anticircunvenção afetam a concorrência no mercado de livros digitais e como essa dinâmica concorrencial, por sua vez, impacta no acesso aos livros. A análise inicia-se com a descrição do mercado de livros digitais e avança à discussão teórica, consistente na revisão da literatura especializada sobre direito autoral, direito da concorrência e acesso ao conhecimento. Sob uma perspectiva de desenvolvimento como liberdade, conclui-se que a revisão das leis anticircunvenção é essencial para fomentar a concorrência nesse mercado, garantir a autonomia dos indivíduos e concretizar o potencial dos e-books para a expansão do acesso ao conhecimento.

Regional perspectives on digital disaster management in Latin America and the Caribbean

Includes bibliography

Preservação digital nas instituições de ensino superior: aspectos organizacionais, legais e técnicos

This article analyzes the main aspects related to digital preservation in Higher Education Institution (HEI). Discusses the problems and challenges to be facing in this context and presents the main aspects and strategies involving digital preservation in this institution type, focusing on three: the organizational aspects, the legal aspects and the technical aspects. The methodological procedures involved the literature analysis on the subject area. As a result shows a digital preservation policy that includes 15 (fifteen) essential elements, distributed in three segments (aspects), and the importance of each element to the deployment of a digital preservation policy.

Comparative Study of Digital Rights Management Systems for Music and Text Files

Digital Rights Management Systems (DRMS) are seen by content providers as the appropriate tool to, on the one hand, fight piracy and, on the other hand, monetize their assets. Although these systems claim to be very powerful and include multiple protection technologies, there is a lack of understanding about how such systems are currently being implemented and used by content providers. The aim of this paper is twofold. First, it provides a theoretical basis through which we present shortly the seven core protection technologies of a DRMS. Second, this paper provides empirical evidence that the seven protection technologies outlined in the first section of this paper are the most commonly used technologies. It further evaluates to what extent these technologies are being used within the music and print industry. It concludes that the three main Technologies are encryption, password, and payment systems. However, there are some industry differences: the number of protection technologies used, the requirements for a DRMS, the required investment, or the perceived success of DRMS in fighting piracy.