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ODRL Community Group

The ODRL Community Group supports the promotion and future development of the W3C ODRL recommendations:

Specifically, the ODRL CG will:

  • Promote ODRL V2.2 to existing and new sectors/industries
  • Nurture an ODRL implementors community
  • Publish reports related to ODRL usage
  • Support development of ODRL Profiles (and host for smaller communities)
  • Register ODRL Profiles
  • Collaborate with W3C on ODRL errata maintenance
  • Plan for future major enhancements to ODRL (V3.0)

w3c/odrl/

Group's public email, repo and wiki activity over time

Note: Community Groups are proposed and run by the community. Although W3C hosts these conversations, the groups do not necessarily represent the views of the W3C Membership or staff.

final reports / licensing info

date name commitments
ODRL Version 2.0 Core Model Licensing commitments
ODRL Version 2.0 Common Vocabulary Licensing commitments
ODRL Version 2.0 XML Encoding Licensing commitments
ODRL Version 2.1 Core Model Licensing commitments
ODRL Version 2.1 XML Encoding Licensing commitments
ODRL Version 2.1 Common Vocabulary Licensing commitments
ODRL Version 2.1 JSON Encoding Licensing commitments
ODRL Version 2.1 Ontology Licensing commitments
W3C ODRL Information Model Version 2.2 Licensing commitments
W3C ODRL Vocabulary & Expression Version 2.2 Licensing commitments

drafts / licensing info

name
ODRL Implementation Best Practices
ODRL Profile Best Practices
ODRL Profile Big Data
ODRL Temporal Profile
ODRL Formal Semantics

Chairs, when logged in, may publish draft and final reports. Please see report requirements.

Publish Reports

ODRL V2.2 Implementation Best Practices –  Open Call for Public Review

The ODRL Community Group invites any party interested in creating and managing ODRL policies to review and comment on the ODRL Implementation Best Practices working draft.

The ODRL CG plan to promote this working draft to Final Report status (based on any feedback) by April 2024.

A “Final Call” will be issued after the March meeting.

Please post your feedback as issues to the ODRL Github repository or direct to the public ODRL email list 

ODRL 2.2 Profile Best Practices – Last Call for Public Review

The ODRL Community Group invites any party interested in creating an ODRL Profile for their community to review and comment on the ODRL Profile Best Practices working draft.

The ODRL CG plan to promote this working draft to Final Report status (based on any feedback) by March 2024.

Please post your feedback as issues to the ODRL Github repository or direct to the public ODRL email list 

RIGHTS AUTOMATION FOR MARKET DATA COMMUNITY GROUP

The aim of the Rights Automation for Market Data Community Group is to develop and publish a market-data profile for ODRL. Market data is mostly the pricing and trading data for financial instruments (and their associated indices) generated by trading venues. The licenses controlling its use are frequently complex, and tightly segment the underlying data. We will model these licenses using ODRL and extend the language with a Profile that defines the new terms required. With a standard, machine-readable way of describing market data licenses, we can look towards automating rights-management along the market data supply chain and drive efficiencies in financial markets. The group welcomes the involvement of domain experts in licensing (especially market data) and those skilled in modeling licenses (especially using ODRL).

https://www.w3.org/community/md-odrl-profile/

New ODRL Co-Chairs

Dear ODRL CG, I am pleased to announce three new Co-Chairs for our community group and their focus areas:
– Michael Steidl: Profiles
– Víctor Rodríguez-Doncel: Developer Community
– David Filip: Industry Outreach

I will continue as the General Co-Chair and W3C Liaison.

Cheers – Renato

First Draft of ODRL Best Practices published by ODRL Community Group

On 2018-03-24 the ODRL Community Group published the first draft of the following specification:

Participants contribute material to this specification under the W3C Community Contributor License Agreement (CLA).

If you have any questions, please contact the group on their public list: public-odrl@w3.org. Learn more about the ODRL Community Group.

Call for Final Specification Commitments for W3C ODRL Vocabulary & Expression Version 2.2

On 2018-02-15 The ODRL Community Group published the following specification:

This is a call for Final Specification Commitments. To provide greater patent protection for this specification, participants in the ODRL Community Group are now invited make commitments under the W3C Community Final Specification Agreement by completing the commitment form. Current commitments are listed on the Web. There is no deadline for making commitments.

If you represent a W3C Member, please contact your Advisory
Committee Representative, who is the person from your organization
authorized to complete the commitment form.

If you have any questions, please contact the group on their public list: public-odrl@w3.org. Learn more about the ODRL Community Group.

Call for Final Specification Commitments for W3C ODRL Information Model Version 2.2

On 2018-02-15 The ODRL Community Group published the following specification:

This is a call for Final Specification Commitments. To provide greater patent protection for this specification, participants in the ODRL Community Group are now invited make commitments under the W3C Community Final Specification Agreement by completing the commitment form. Current commitments are listed on the Web. There is no deadline for making commitments.

If you represent a W3C Member, please contact your Advisory
Committee Representative, who is the person from your organization
authorized to complete the commitment form.

If you have any questions, please contact the group on their public list: public-odrl@w3.org. Learn more about the ODRL Community Group.

New ODRL W3C First Public Working Drafts

The W3C Permissions & Obligations Expression (POE) Working Group has published the First Public Working Drafts for the ODRL Information Model and the ODRL Vocabulary & Expression. These FPWDs provide a flexible and interoperable information model, vocabulary, and encoding mechanisms for describing statements about digital content usage. The deliverables are based on the previous reports created by the W3C ODRL Community Group and form the baseline for future enhancements by the POE WG.

In addition, the POE WG has published the Use Case and Requirements Note. These Use Cases will be reviewed and analyzed further into detailed requirements. The POE WG is calling for wider community feedback and contributions to the set of Use Cases to further enhance and improve the ODRL permissions and obligations expression language.