Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV)

The Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV) provides an ontology (classes and properties) and taxonomies of concepts to represent information regarding how personal data is processed in the form of an ontology or a knowledge graph. For example, it provides taxonomies associated with: purposes of processing personal data categories involved processing operations technical and organisational measures or restrictions applied legal basis used to justify processing information about legal basis for processing rights as applicable risks as applicable The namespace for DPV terms is http://w3id.org/dpv# with suggested prefix dpv, and serialisations are provided in RDF/XML, Turtle, JSON-LD, and N3 formats. The default serialisations are defined using a custom SKOS extension, with dpv-skos providing concepts in RDFS/SKOS semantics, and dpv-owl providing concepts in OWL2 semantics. Extensions These extensions provide additional concepts that extend the concepts and scope of the main DPV specification: Personal Data (PD) provides a taxonomy of personal data categories Legal provides a taxonomy of location concepts based on ISO 3166 (countries, regions) and their laws and authorities Technology (TECH) provides a taxonomy of technology concepts Risk provides concepts for risk assessment and management EU GDPR EU Charter of Fundamental Rights