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Uncle-Share: Annotation-Based Access Control for Cooperative and Social Systems

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On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2008 (OTM 2008)

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Abstract

Shared workspaces and Web 2.0 platforms provide lots of services for sharing various objects. Most current shared workspaces and Web 2.0 platforms provide role-based, coarse-grained access control policies which undermine the utility of them in some cases. In this paper, we present Annotation-Based Access Control, an approach towards access control which benefits from user annotations to annotate people using various fixed and desired open vocabulary (tags) and helps to build a more flexible access control mechanism based on relationships among different types of users. We also present a prototype, a gadget called Uncle-Share, which we have developed to enable this access control mechanism and evaluate it.

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  1. Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, IDA Business Park, Lower Dangan, Galway, Ireland

    Peyman Nasirifard & Vassilios Peristeras

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Nasirifard, P., Peristeras, V. (2008). Uncle-Share: Annotation-Based Access Control for Cooperative and Social Systems. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2008. OTM 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5332. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88873-4_13

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