GDPRov/docs/sections/introduction-en.html

<h2 id="intro" class="list">Introduction <span class="backlink"> back to <a href="#toc">ToC</a></span></h2>
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    GDPRov (pronounced as GDPR-prov) is an  
    <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/owl2-overview/">OWL2</a> ontology for describing the 
    provenance of data and consent lifecycles using <a href="http://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2016/679/oj">GDPR</a> terminology. It extends 
    the existing linked open data provenance ontologies - <a href="https://www.w3.org/TR/prov-o/">PROV ontology (PROV-O)</a> 
    and <a href="http://purl.org/net/p-plan">Ontology for Provenance and Plans (P-Plan)</a>. 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. 
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<h3 id="ns" class="list">Namespace declarations</h3>
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<caption> <a href="#ns"> Table 1</a>: Namespaces used in the document </caption>
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<tr><td><b>owl</b></td><td>&lt;http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#&gt;</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>rdf</b></td><td>&lt;http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#&gt;</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>terms</b></td><td>&lt;http://purl.org/dc/terms/&gt;</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>xsd</b></td><td>&lt;http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#&gt;</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>rdfs</b></td><td>&lt;http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#&gt;</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>p-plan</b></td><td>&lt;http://purl.org/net/p-plan#&gt;</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>vann</b></td><td>&lt;http://purl.org/vocab/vann/&gt;</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>prov</b></td><td>&lt;http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#&gt;</td></tr>
<tr><td><b>gdprov</b></td><td>&lt;http://purl.org/adaptcentre/openscience/ontologies/gdprov#&gt;</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
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