Paper on embedded metadata

Dear all,

you might find it of interest that two former students of mine has had a
paper on embedding metadata accepted for the Virtual Goods 2013 conference
in Koblenz later this year.

The paper, "Exploring Challenges in Embedding Metadata of Licences and
Attribution in Digital Work" is based on their bachelor thesis with the
same name (supervised by me). In their thesis, they conducted a qualitative
case study and explored the challenges of embedding metadata of licence and
attribution requirements information in digital work, from both
social/legal and technological perspectives. The study resulted in a list
of challenges, practical problems, and
suggestions in terms of the implementation of such software.

For your reference, I've placed a copy of their thesis submission on the
following URL (this differs slightly in form and scope from their paper but
is substantially the same, though they will now rework this further for the
final conference submission):

  http://belar.coyote.org/~jonas/Yinhe_Liu_Thesis_Final.pdf

Sincerely,
Jonas