RE: ODRL Profile for Linked Data

Hi Victor!

I definitely think that we (the Linked/Open/(Closed) Data community) 
need such a profile. Although there are already some languages which 
offer the possibility to represent access rights/licenses/policies/.. as 
you pointed out, they usually only focus on specific parts of the 
challenges you mentioned (e.g. L4LOD for licenses).

To overcome this issue a standardized way to represent licenses, access 
policies/restrictions together with constraints and duties is - in my 
humble opinion - necessary (e.g. like the Provenance Ontology[1] for 
provenance information) and I would love to participate in such an 
undertaking!

best regards,
simon

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/

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Betreff: ODRL Profile for Linked Data
Datum:  Wed, 17 Sep 2014 00:18:53 +0200
Von:  Víctor Rodríguez Doncel <vrodriguez@fi.upm.es>
An:  <public-odrl@w3.org> <public-odrl@w3.org>


Dear ODRL community,

In the last months a growing number of voices within the Semantic Web
community has claimed for a licensing language for Linked Data and data
in general.

First, there is a vast amount of open data provided by public
institutions whose open licenses are demanded in a digital format.
Second, the economical value of some Linked Data datasets is being now
recognized, and there is the need for a language to publish offers with
a price and richer conditions. Third, access to Linked Data is being
normalized, and if there are to be access control systems, expressive
policies specific for Linked Data will also be required.

These needs can be addressed by using ODRL if properly extended.
Therefore, we make a call for a proper ODRL Profile for Linked Data to
exist.

We do not start from the scratch, there is a breeding ground. Different
initiatives to define a language to license data have arosen [1-4] where
RDF has been the language of choice.
While the terms in LDR [1] have been directly derived from the ODRL
Ontology, the rest of them are in essence also compatible with the ODRL
schema.
Thus, I wonder...
Is there enough support or interest to specify such a profile?

If this is the case, I suggest we start collecting requirements and
features the new language should cover.

Regards,
Víctor

[1] LDR - Linked Data Rights - http://purl.oclc.org/NET/ldr/ns#
[2] L4LOD - Licenses for Linked Open Data - http://ns.inria.fr/l4lod
[4] LIMO - LIMO Vocabulary Specification 3.0 -
http://data.opendataday.it/LiMo/
[3] ODRS - Open Data Rights Statement Vocabulary -
http://schema.theodi.org/odrs/
[5] ccREL - Creative Commons Rights Expression Language -
http://creativecommons.org/ns

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Dipl.-Ing. Simon Steyskal
Institute for Information Business, WU Vienna

www: http://www.steyskal.info/  twitter: @simonsteys

Received on Wednesday, 17 September 2014 12:46:18 UTC