DPV 2.1 release

# DPV 2.1

## Summary

We're pleased to present DPV 2.1 as the next version of DPV following 
last year's DPV 2.0.

The changelog is at https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/changelog.html. There are 
no major breaking changes or incompatibilities between 2.1 and 2.0. 
Specific potential and minor breaking changes are mentioned in the 
changelog for each specification. In total, DPV 2.1 and all its 
extensions contain 9167 concepts, and compared to 2.0 - 6553 concepts 
have been added and 133 concepts removed. Going ahead, we do not foresee 
major breaking changes in the future release which is tentatively 
labelled 2.2. Work on the next version has been started under the label 
2.2-dev.

We use github for version control, releases, wiki, and issues -- 
https://github.com/w3c/dpv

## List of DPV Vocabularies

- Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV) -- stable ; https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/dpv
- Personal Data Categories (PD) -- stable ; https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/pd
- Technology (TECH) -- stable ; https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/tech
- Artificial Intelligence (AI) -- stable ; https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/ai
- Risk Management (RISK) -- stable ; https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/risk
- JUSTIFICATIONS -- stable ; https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/justifications
- Locations (LOC) -- stable ; https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/loc
- Legal Concepts for Jurisdictions (LEGAL) -- stable ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal
- Legal Concepts for European Union (EU) (LEGAL-EU) -- stable ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/eu
- Legal Concepts for Austria (AT) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/at
- Legal Concepts for Belgium (BE) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/be
- Legal Concepts for Bulgaria (BG) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/bg
- Legal Concepts for Cyprus (CY) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/cy
- Legal Concepts for Czech Republic (CZ) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/cz
- Legal Concepts for Germany (DE) -- stable ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/de
- Legal Concepts for Denmark (DK) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/dk
- Legal Concepts for Estonia (EE) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/ee
- Legal Concepts for Spain (ES) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/es
- Legal Concepts for Finland (FI) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/fi
- Legal Concepts for France (FR) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/fr
- Legal Concepts for United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern 
Ireland (GB) -- stable ; https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/gb
- Legal Concepts for Greece (GR) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/gr
- Legal Concepts for Crotia (HR) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/hr
- Legal Concepts for Hungary (HU) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/hu
- Legal Concepts for Ireland (IE) -- stable ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/ie
- Legal Concepts for India (IN) -- stable ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/in
- Legal Concepts for Iceland (IS) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/is
- Legal Concepts for Italy (IT) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/it
- Legal Concepts for Liechtenstein (LI) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/li
- Legal Concepts for Lithuania (LT) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/lt
- Legal Concepts for Luxembourg (LU) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/lu
- Legal Concepts for Latvia (LV) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/lv
- Legal Concepts for Malta (MT) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/mt
- Legal Concepts for the Netherlands (NL) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/nl
- Legal Concepts for Norway (NO) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/no
- Legal Concepts for Poland (PL) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/pl
- Legal Concepts for Portugal (PT) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/pt
- Legal Concepts for Romania (RO) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/ro
- Legal Concepts for Sweden (SE) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/se
- Legal Concepts for Slovenia (SI) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/si
- Legal Concepts for Slovakia (SK) -- stable, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/sk
- Legal Concepts for United States of America (US) -- stable ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/us
- EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU-GDPR) -- stable ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/eu/gdpr
- EU Data Governance Act (EU-DGA) -- stable ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/eu/dga
- EU Artificial Intelligence Act (EU-AIAct) -- stable ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/eu/aiact
- EU Network and Information Services Directive (EU-NIS2) -- stable ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/eu/nis2
- EU Fundamental Rights and Freedoms (EU-RIGHTS) -- stable ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/eu/rights
- EU European Health Data Spaces (EU-EHDS) -- draft, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/legal/eu/ehds
- Sectorial Concepts (SECTOR) -- draft, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/sector
- Education Sector Concepts (SECTOR-EDUCATION) -- draft, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/sector/education
- Finance Sector Concepts (SECTOR-FINANCE) -- draft, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/sector/finance
- Health Sector Concepts (SECTOR-HEALTH) -- draft, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/sector/health
- Infrastructure Sector Concepts (SECTOR-INFRA) -- draft, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/sector/infra
- Law Enforcement & Justice Sector Concepts (SECTOR-LAW -- draft, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/sector/law
- Public Services Sector Concepts (SECTOR-PUBLICSERVICES) -- draft, new 
; https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/sector/publicservices
- Extension for IEEE P7012 -- draft, new ; 
https://w3id.org/dpv/2.1/standards/p7012

## Contributors

Thanks to the following members of the DPVCG (ordered alphabetically):

- Arthit Suriyawongkul @bact
- Beatriz Esteves @besteves4
- Delaram Golpayegani @delaramglp
- Georg P. Krog
- Harshvardhan J. Pandit @coolharsh55
- Iain Henderson @iainh1
- Jan Lindquist
- Jesse Wright @jeswr
- Julian Flake @nuthub
- Mark Lizar @smartopian
- Paul Ryan @Paul-Ryan76
- Rob Brennan brennanraj
- Ted Thibodeau Jr @TallTed
- Tytti Rintamaki @TyttiKatariina

Also thanks to the following people:

- Daniel Doherty @drd00 for providing bias categories based on ISO
standards.
- Patrick Hochstenbach @phochste, Per Hallgren @perhallgren, and Junli
Liang junli-liang-johnny for reporting broken terms/links.

In addition to the above, this release also marks the completion of 
PhDs. by Dr. Delaram Golpayegani and Dr. Beatriz Esteves whose theses 
have been instrumental in the development of the DPV specifications. 
Congratulations to both!

If there are any discrepencies, deficiencies, or missing 
acknowledgements - apologies - and please let us know so those can be 
fixed. We hope DPV will be continue to be a useful resource and that we 
progressively support more use-cases and increase our membership and 
adoption.
-- 
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Harshvardhan J. Pandit, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University
https://harshp.com/

Received on Sunday, 16 March 2025 17:54:07 UTC