A graph-based formalism for controlling access to a digital library ontology

  • Authors:
  • Subhasis Dasgupta;Aditya Bagchi

  • Affiliations:
  • Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India;Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India

  • Venue:
  • CISIM'12 Proceedings of the 11th IFIP TC 8 international conference on Computer Information Systems and Industrial Management
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

This paper presents a graph-based formalism for an Ontology Based Access Control (OBAC) system applied to Digital Library (DL) ontology. It uses graph transformations, a graphical specification technique based on a generalization of classical string grammars to nonlinear structures. The proposed formalism provides an executable specification that exploits existing tools of graph grammar to verify the properties of a graph-based access control mechanism applicable to a digital library ontology description. It also provides a uniform specification for controlling access not only at the concept level but also at the level of the documents covered by the concepts including node obfuscation, if required.