Published July 1, 2024 | Version 2.0-beta
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Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV)

Creators

  • 1. ROR icon Trinity College Dublin
  • 2. ROR icon Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • 3. Signatu AS
  • 4. ROR icon University of Koblenz and Landau
  • 5. ROR icon Dublin City University

Description

Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV)

The Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV) provides an ontology (classes and properties) and taxonomies of concepts to represent information regarding how personal data is processed in the form of an ontology or a knowledge graph. For example, it provides taxonomies associated with:

  • purposes of processing
  • personal data categories involved
  • processing operations
  • technical and organisational measures or restrictions applied
  • legal basis used to justify processing
  • information about legal basis for processing
  • rights as applicable
  • risks as applicable

The namespace for DPV terms is http://w3id.org/dpv# with suggested prefix dpv, and serialisations are provided in RDF/XML, Turtle, JSON-LD, and N3 formats. The default serialisations are defined using RDFS/SKOS semantics, with an alternate serialisation defined using OWL2 semantics.

Extensions

These extensions provide additional concepts that extend the concepts and scope of the main DPV specification:
  • Personal Data (PD) provides a taxonomy of personal data categories
  • Location (LOC) provides a taxonomy of location concepts based on ISO 3166 (countries, regions)
  • Technology (TECH) provides a taxonomy of technology concepts
  • AI provides a taxonomy of AI concepts extending the TECH extension
  • Justifications provides concepts for representing justifications i.e. why something must be done or could not be done
  • Risk provides concepts for risk assessment and management

Extensions for Jurisdictions and Regulations

The legal extensions provide concepts associated with specific jurisdictions and the laws, authorities, and treaties within them. The Legal page provides an overview of these. The jurisdictions are represented by using their ISO 3166-2 codes.

Acknowledgements and Citation

  • For use of DPV up to v1 and v1.1, Cite as: The peer-reviewed article “Creating A Vocabulary for Data Privacy” presents a historical overview of the DPVCG, and describes the methodology and structure of the DPV along with describing its creation. An open-access version can be accessed here, here, and here.

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Additional details

Identifiers

URL
https://w3.org/ns/dpv
W3ID
https://w3id.org/dpv

Related works

Is described by
Conference paper: 10.1007/978-3-030-33246-4_44 (DOI)
Preprint: 10.48550/arXiv.2404.13426 (DOI)
Is new version of
Dataset: 10.5281/zenodo.12505841 (DOI)

Funding

SPECIAL – Scalable Policy-awarE linked data arChitecture for prIvacy, trAnsparency and compLiance 731601
European Commission
TRAPEZE – TRAPEZE - TRAnsparency, Privacy and security for European citiZEns 883464
European Commission
PROTECT – Protecting Personal Data Amidst Big Data Innovation 813497
European Commission
ADAPT SFI Centre for Digital Media Technology 13/RC/2106
Science Foundation Ireland
ADAPT SFI Centre for Digital Media Technology 13/RC/2106_P2
Science Foundation Ireland
Irish Research Council Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship GOIPD/2020/790
Irish Research Council

Dates

Created
2022-12-05

Software

Repository URL
https://github.com/w3c/dpv