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A Genealogy and Classification of Rights Expression Languages – Preliminary Results

  • Authors: Tassilo Pellegrini / Andrea Schönhofer / Sabrina Kirrane / Simon Steyskal / Anna Fensel / Oleksandra Panasiuk / Victor Mireles-Chavez / Thomas Thurner / Markus Dörfler / Axel Polleres
  • Category: Articles
  • Region: Austria
  • Field of law: Advanced Legal Informatics Systems and Applications
  • Collection: Conference proceedings IRIS 2018
  • Citation: Tassilo Pellegrini / Andrea Schönhofer / Sabrina Kirrane / Simon Steyskal / Anna Fensel / Oleksandra Panasiuk / Victor Mireles-Chavez / Thomas Thurner / Markus Dörfler / Axel Polleres, A Genealogy and Classification of Rights Expression Languages – Preliminary Results, in: Jusletter IT 22 February 2018
Rights Expression Languages (RELs) are a central component of contemporary digital rights management systems. They are applied to express permissions, obligations and prohibitions in a machine-processable form. Since the early 1990s we can observe a massive increase in RELs for purposes such as access control, license management or contracting. This paper presents a genealogy of RELs since 1989, proposes a classification that helps better understand their functional focus and application area and gives an outlook on research perspectives.

Table of contents

  • 1. Problem Statement
  • 2. Methodology
  • 3. Results
  • 3.1. A brief history of RELs
  • 3.2. Application areas of RELs
  • 3.3. A genealogy of RELs
  • 4. Future Work
  • 5. Acknowledgements
  • 6. Literature
  • 7. Appendix 1: RELs Overview

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