Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV)

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 RDFS/SKOS semantics, with an alternate serialisation defined using 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

Location (LOC) provides a taxonomy of location concepts based on ISO 3166 (countries, regions)

Technology (TECH) provides a taxonomy of technology concepts

AI provides a taxonomy of AI concepts extending the TECH extension

Justifications provides concepts for representing justifications i.e. why something must be done or could not be done

Risk provides concepts for risk assessment and management

Extensions for Jurisdictions and Regulations
The legal extensions provide concepts associated with specific jurisdictions and the laws, authorities, and treaties within them. The Legal page provides an overview of these. The jurisdictions are represented by using their ISO 3166-2 codes.

European Union (EU)

GDPR

DGA

AI Act

Charter of Fundamental Rights

Germany (DE)

Ireland (IE)

India (IN)

United Kingdom (GB)

United States of America (USA)

Acknowledgements and Citation

For use of DPV from v2 onwards, Cite as: Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV) -- Version 2 by Harshvardhan J. Pandit, Beatriz Esteves, Georg P. Krog, Paul Ryan, Delaram Golpayegani, Julian Flake https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13426 (2024)

For use of DPV up to v1 and v1.1, Cite as: The peer-reviewed article “Creating A Vocabulary for Data Privacy” presents a historical overview of the DPVCG, and describes the methodology and structure of the DPV along with describing its creation. An open-access version can be accessed here, here, and here.