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.

Thesis (M.Sc.)--York University, 2007. Graduate Programme in Computer Science. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 120-123). Also available on the Internet. MODE OF ACCESS via web browser by entering the following URL: http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:MR29315

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Florida, 2001. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains xii, 122 p.; also contains graphics. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 114-121).

Project report (M.S.)--San Jose State University, 2000. / Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 37-40).

Thesis (M. Phil.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 105-107).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Florida, 2000. / Title from first page of PDF file. Document formatted into pages; contains v, 111 p.; also contains graphics. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 106-110).

Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Computer Science, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 47-50).

Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science and M.S. in Modeling, Virtual Environments and Simulation (MOVES))--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2004. / Thesis advisor(s): Rudolph Darken. Includes bibliographical references (p. 57). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Worcester Polytechnic Institute. / Keywords: Replacement strategy; Query rewriting; Query containment; Semantic caching; Query; XML. Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-222).

Thesis (M.S. in Computer Science)--Naval Postgraduate School, March 2004. / Thesis advisor(s): Donald P. Brutzman, Curtis L. Blais. Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-195). Also available online.