ODRL
ODRL
Abstract
ODRL is language to represent policies in a machine readable (JSON, RDF, XML) form.
The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) is a policy expression language that provides a flexible and interoperable information model, vocabulary, and encoding mechanisms for representing statements about the usage of content and services. The ODRL Information Model describes the underlying concepts, entities, and relationships that form the foundational basis for the semantics of the ODRL policies.
Policies are used to represent permitted and prohibited actions over a certain asset, as well as the obligations required to be meet by stakeholders. In addition, policies may be limited by constraints (e.g., temporal or spatial constraints) and duties (e.g. payments) may be imposed on permissions.
The ODRL specs were made by the W3C Permissions and Obligations Working Group wiki.
One type of policy, defined in the official specs, is the privacy policy, that is to say, "A Policy that expresses a Rule over an Asset containing personal information". However, there are no specific terms of interest for privacy and providing new vocabularies specialized in the domain is necessary.
The type of a privacy policy is represented with a URI.