My research is on social systems on the Web augmented with provenance, policy expressions and linked data for appropriate usage of data. I have demonstrated how these systems can be used in preserving privacy of sensitive data and in protecting intellectual property rights of creative content.

• Enabling Privacy Through Transparency, Oshani Seneviratne and Lalana Kagal, IEEE Privacy Security and Trust 2014
• Democratizing Mobile App Development for Disaster Management, Fuming Shih, Oshani Seneviratne, Daniela Miao, Ilaria Liccardi, Lalana Kagal, Evan Patton, Patrick Maier, and Carlos Castillo, IJCAI Workshop on Semantic Cities 2013
• Policy Aware Social Miner, Sharon Paradesi, Oshani Seneviratne and Lalana Kagal, Workshop on Semantic Computing and Security 2012
• Augmenting the Web with Accountability, Oshani Seneviratne, PhD Symposium, World Wide Web Conference 2012
• WebBox: Supporting Decentralized and Privacy-respecting Micro-sharing with Existing Web Standards, Daniel Alexander Smith, Max Van Kleek, Oshani Seneviratne, m.c. schraefel, Alexandre Bertails, Tim Berners-Lee, Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbolt, University of Southampton Tech Report 2012
• Usage Restriction Management for Data Transfer on the Web, Oshani Seneviratne and Lalana Kagal, Web 2.0 Security and Privacy Symposium 2011
• Addressing Data Reuse Issues at the Protocol Level, Oshani Seneviratne and Lalana Kagal, IEEE International Symposium on Policies for Distributed Systems and Networks 2011
• HTTPa: Accountable HTTP, Oshani Seneviratne and Lalana Kagal, IAB/W3C Internet Privacy Workshop
• Remix Culture on the Web: A Survey of Content Reuse on Different UserGenerated Content Websites Oshani Seneviratne and Andre Monroy-Hernendez, Web Science Conference 2010
• On Integration Issues of Site-specific APIs into the Web of Data, Tim Berners-Lee and Richard Cyganiak and Michael Hausenblas and Joe Presbrey and Oshani Seneviratne and Oana-Elena Ureche, DERI Technical Report
• Policy Aware Geospatial Data, Puneet Kishor and Oshani Seneviratne and Noah Giansiracusa, ACMGIS 2009 - 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances on Geographic Information Systems
• Decentralization: The Future of Online Social Networking, Ching-man AuYeung, Ilaria Liccardi, Kanghao-Lu, Oshani Seneviratne and Tim Berners-Lee, W3C Mobile Social Networking Workshop
• Policy Aware Content Reuse on the Web, Oshani Seneviratne and Lalana Kagal and Tim Berners-Lee, International Semantic Web Conference 2009
• The Point of View Axis: Varying the Levels of Explanation Within a Generic RDF Data Browsing Environment, Oshani Seneviratne and Tim Berners-Lee, CSAIL Student Workshop 2008