This is a Call-for-Participation for the W3C Workshop on the Future of ODRL.
The workshop is free. To help us prepare and run the event effectively, please email your position paper or your scientific paper to odrl-ws-submission@w3.org. The Programme Committee will use them to build the agenda and select the presentations.
Why This Workshop?
Since becoming a W3C Recommendation in 2018, ODRL has gained increasing recognition and adoption across:
- Data space governance frameworks
- Industry consortia and international standards
- Digital media and creative content providers
- Financial sectors
At the same time, important challenges remain:
- Policy interoperability across domains
- Runtime enforcement and compliance verification
- Profile development and extension governance
- Tooling maturity and usability
- Integration with emerging Web standards
This workshop provides a forum to examine these topics collaboratively and define next steps.
Topics of Interest
We invite proposals for short talks (10–15 minutes) on topics including, but not limited to:
ODRL Adoption & Industry Experience
- Case studies of ODRL deployments
- Lessons learned from production implementations
- Integration within data ecosystems and digital platforms
- Governance and compliance use cases
- ODRL Linked data integration
- ODRL best practices
- Profiles and domain-specific extensions
Innovation and Semantics of ODRL
- Formal semantics of ODRL
- Policy evaluation engines
- Constraint modeling
- ODRL editors, validators, and libraries
- Automated policy generation
- AI-assisted policy authoring and validation
- Conformance and testing mechanisms
Interoperability & Architecture
- ODRL and access control systems
- Alignment with data space architectures
- Integration with Verifiable Credentials and DIDs
- Enforcement architectures and policy decision points
- Gaps in the current ODRL Information Model
- Requirements for future revisions
- Governance of vocabularies and profiles
- Community sustainability and collaboration
The workshop will include:
- Presentations (10–15 minutes each)
- Moderated discussion sessions
- Thematic breakout discussions
- Consolidated reporting of outcomes
All accepted talks and slides will be made publicly available after the event.
Submitting a Proposal
To propose a Position Paper or a Scientific Paper, please submit:
- Name
- Affiliation
- Short biography (2–3 sentences) or LinkedIn link
- Talk title and abstract (3–5 sentences), or
- Position Paper (2 to 4 pages), or
- Scientific Paper with up to 10 pages
All Proposals should imagine the future direction of ODRL with constructive proposals, suggestions for consensus, concrete real-world examples and use cases, and surface new and innovative approaches for ODRL.
Submission details: Submit proposals via email to odrl-ws-submission@w3.org
We especially encourage submissions from industry implementers and tool builders.
Who Should Attend?
- New adopters and implementers of ODRL
- Data space architects
- Digital rights and governance professionals
- Media Standards contributors
- Researchers in policy languages and asset control
- Tool developers and platform providers
Attendance is free for all participants and is open to the public, whether or not W3C Members.
Program Committee
Co-Chairs:
W3C Contacts: Rigo Wenning (rigo at_ w3.org)
Program Committee (Pending to be confirmed):
- Beatriz Esteves, Ghent University, Belgium
- Rigo Wenning, W3C, France
- Pierre-Antoine Champin, W3C/Inria, France
- Ben Wittham-Smith
- Andrea Cimmino, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
- Matthias Autrata
- Simon Steyskal
- Joshua Cornejo, Marketdata, UK
- Yassir Sellami, Gaia-X, Belgium
- Wout Slabbinck, Ghent University, Belgium
- Philippe Rixhon, Valunode, Estonia
- Brendan Quinn, IPTC, Estonia
- Leonard Rosenthol, Adobe, USA
The Program Committee will review submissions and shape the final agenda.