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GDPRov (pronounced as GDPR-prov) is an OWL2 ontology for describing the provenance of data and consent lifecycles using GDPR terminology. It extends the existing linked open data provenance ontologies - PROV ontology (PROV-O) and Ontology for Provenance and Plans (P-Plan). PROV-O is used to represent provenance information and is a W3C recommendation. GDPRov uses these provenance ontologies to express a data-flow model that can trace how consent and data are used by extending the appropriate vocabulary with GDPR-related terms. As the GDPR specifies several requirements over the use of consent and personal data, the compliance documentation for it requires a provenance trace of how the consent and personal data were obtained, and all processes that act on them. Additionally, GDPR also provides the data subject with several rights that also require maintaining provenance traces. GDPRov aims to provide a base ontology for the expression of such provenance traces which can provide beneficial in the development of compliance related documentation and approaches as well as GDPR related tools and utilities.

Namespace declarations

Table 1: Namespaces used in the document
owl<http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#>
rdf<http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#>
terms<http://purl.org/dc/terms/>
xsd<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#>
rdfs<http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#>
p-plan<http://purl.org/net/p-plan#>
vann<http://purl.org/vocab/vann/>
prov<http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#>
gdprov<http://purl.org/adaptcentre/openscience/ontologies/gdprov#>