Re: Ontology to model access control

On 12/16/15 12:05 PM, Robert Sanderson wrote:
> And to pile on, +1 to WebACL for this. We also use it in the Fedora4
> (LDP based) repository solution.
>

+1

<http://www.w3.org/ns/auth/acl#this> already provides an vocabulary of
terms for describing resource access controls. It is also widely used
across Linked Data solutions that support:

[1] WebID -- Identity
[2] WebID-TLS Protocol -- Authentication
[3] WebID-Profile Documents -- Identity Claims.

Kingsley

> On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 3:43 AM, Víctor Rodríguez Doncel
> <vrodriguez@fi.upm.es <mailto:vrodriguez@fi.upm.es>> wrote:
>
>     Sebastian,
>
>     I understand you want to implement some sort of RBAC.
>     I believe WebAccessControl
>     <https://www.w3.org/wiki/WebAccessControl> is the most
>     straightforward option if this is what you need.
>     For more complex expressions (conditions, etc.) you may want to
>     use ODRL
>
>     Víctor
>
>
>     El 16/12/2015 a las 11:25, Sebastian Hellmann escribió:
>>     Dear all,
>>
>>     to guide the integration of data into DBpedia+ effectively, we
>>     are  working on a new release of DataID, i.e. it's ontology [1,2]
>>     and an implementation of a repository to manage metadata
>>     effectively and distribute it to different other venues like
>>     datahub.io <http://datahub.io> via push.
>>
>>     we are looking for an ontology that allows us to express access
>>     rights to model the following roles:
>>
>>     for metadata editing: Guest, Creator, Maintainer, Contributor
>>     for datasets: Guest, Creator, Maintainer, Contributor, Contact,
>>     Publisher
>>
>>     We are thinking about copying some ideas from here:
>>     https://hal-unice.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01202126/document
>>     e.g. to have something like:
>>
>>     [] a dataid:AuthorityEntityContext ;
>>        dataid:authorizedFor :x ; # this is a prov:Entity (either a
>>     DataId, a Dataset or a distribution)
>>        dataid:authorityAgentRole dataid:Maintainer ;
>>        dataid:authorizedAgent  [ (insert FOAF here) ] .
>>
>>
>>     Any ideas or pointers?
>>     A detailed analysis of the problem has been published by our
>>     ALIGNED[4] partner SWC [3]
>>
>>     All the best,
>>     Sebastian and Markus
>>
>>     [1] previous version
>>     http://svn.aksw.org/papers/2014/Semantics_Dataid/public.pdf
>>     [2] current ontology version:
>>     https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dbpedia/dataid/testbranch/ontology/ontology.ttl
>>     in the testbranch of https://github.com/dbpedia/dataid
>>     [3]
>>     https://blog.semantic-web.at/2015/12/02/ready-to-connect-to-the-semantic-web-now-what/
>>     [4] http://aligned-project.eu/
>>     -- 
>>     Sebastian Hellmann
>>     AKSW/KILT research group at Leipzig University
>>     Insitute for Applied Informatics (InfAI) at Leipzig University
>>     DBpedia Association
>>     Events:
>>     * *Feb 8th, 2016* Submission Deadline, 5th Workshop on Linked
>>     Data in Linguistics <http://ldl2016.linguistic-lod.org/>
>>     Venha para a Alemanha como PhD:
>>     http://bis.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/csf
>>     Projects: http://dbpedia.org, http://nlp2rdf.org,
>>     http://linguistics.okfn.org, https://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt
>>     <http://www.w3.org/community/ld4lt>
>>     Homepage: http://aksw.org/SebastianHellmann
>>     Research Group: http://aksw.org
>>     Thesis:
>>     http://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis-summary
>>     http://tinyurl.com/sh-thesis
>
>
>     -- 
>     Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel
>     D3205 - Ontology Engineering Group (OEG)
>     Departamento de Inteligencia Artificial
>     ETS de Ingenieros Informáticos
>     Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
>
>     Campus de Montegancedo s/n
>     Boadilla del Monte-28660 Madrid, Spain
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>
>
>
>
> -- 
> Rob Sanderson
> Information Standards Advocate
> Digital Library Systems and Services
> Stanford, CA 94305


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