Checking Licenses Compatibility between Vocabularies and Data
Guido Governatori, Ho-Pun Lam, Antonino Rotolo, Serena Villata, Ghislain Auguste Atemezing, Fabien L. Gandon, Inria Sophia Antipolis · HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe) · 2014
Abstract In the Web of Data, licenses specifying the terms of use and reuse are associated not only to datasets but also to vocabularies. However, even less support is provided for taking the licenses of vocabularies into account than for datasets, which says it all. In particular, this paper addresses the following issue: checking the compatibility among the set of licenses assigned to the vocabularies used to constitute a dataset, and the license that is intended to be associated to the dataset itself. We provide a framework called LIVE able to support data publishers in such compatibility checking step, taking into consideration both the licenses associated to the vocabularies and those assigned to the data. 1