Managing intellectual property rights in the WWW: patterns and semantics

An architecture to manage digital rights, in this case intellectual property rights IPR, in the World Wide Web is being developed. It has as main features: semantics and complex systems analysis. Semantics allow establishing concepts meaning inside the architecture while statistics allow managing a huge amount of semantic information. In order to provide an efficient performance, some aspects have been enriched as digital rights information representation and database management. Semantic graphs encapsulate digital rights information and statistical analysis over the stored graphs in the semantic database allows extracting behavioral patterns. It is possible to distinguish four relevant phases: retrieval IPR from the World Wide Web performed by Web crawlers, IPR semantic representation, IPR statistical analysis in the semantic database and the last part concludes with action answers over DRM as negotiation aspects.