Contributors: (ordered alphabetically) Harshvardhan J. Pandit (AI Accountability Lab (AIAL), Trinity College Dublin). NOTE: The affiliations are informative, do not represent formal endorsements, and may be outdated as this list is generated automatically from existing data.
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NOTE: This is a draft vocabulary, which will be updated as authoritative guidance is established on IN DPDP's interpretation. The DPVCG welcomes participation and contributions for this work.
DPV Specifications: The [[DPV]] is the core specification that is extended by specific extensions. A [[PRIMER]] introduces the concepts and modelling of DPV specifications, and [[GUIDES]] describe application of DPV for specific applications and use-cases. The Search Index page provides a searchable hierarchy of all concepts. The Data Privacy Vocabularies and Controls Community Group (DPVCG) develops and manages these specifications through GitHub. For meetings, see the DPVCG calendar.
The peer-reviewed article "Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV) - Version 2.0" (2024) describes the current state of DPV and extensions from version 2.0 onwards, with an earlier article (2019) covering how the DPV was developed (open access versions here, here, and here).
Contributing: The DPVCG welcomes participation to improve the DPV and associated resources, including expansion or refinement of concepts, requesting information and applications, and addressing open issues. See contributing guide for further information.
The extension supports the implementation of TODO: IN-DPDP by providing concepts based on extending [[DPV]] to represent notifications, technical and organisational measures, reporting and compliance documentation, and other relevant information.
The concepts in this section reflect the status of processing operations being in compliance with DPDP, by extending the ComplianceStatus from DPV for DPDP. It does not define the requirements for compliance itself. To indicate these, the relation dpv:hasLawfulness can be used.
| Term | DPDPComplianceUnknown | Prefix | in-dpdp |
|---|---|---|---|
| Label | DPDP Compliance Unknown | ||
| IRI | https://w3id.org/dpv/legal/in/dpdp#DPDPComplianceUnknown | ||
| Type | rdfs:Class, skos:Concept, dpv:Lawfulness | ||
| Broader/Parent types | in-dpdp:DPDPLawfulness → dpv:Lawfulness → dpv:ComplianceStatus → dpv:Status → dpv:Context | ||
| Object of relation | dpv:hasComplianceStatus, dpv:hasContext, dpv:hasLawfulness, dpv:hasStatus | ||
| Definition | State where lawfulness or compliance with IN DPDP is unknown | ||
| Date Created | 2026-02-22 | ||
| Contributors | Harshvardhan J. Pandit | ||
| See More: | section LAWFULNESS in IN-DPDP |
| Term | DPDPCompliant | Prefix | in-dpdp |
|---|---|---|---|
| Label | DPDP Compliant | ||
| IRI | https://w3id.org/dpv/legal/in/dpdp#DPDPCompliant | ||
| Type | rdfs:Class, skos:Concept, dpv:Lawfulness | ||
| Broader/Parent types | in-dpdp:DPDPLawfulness → dpv:Lawfulness → dpv:ComplianceStatus → dpv:Status → dpv:Context | ||
| Object of relation | dpv:hasComplianceStatus, dpv:hasContext, dpv:hasLawfulness, dpv:hasStatus | ||
| Definition | State of being lawful or legally compliant for IN DPDP | ||
| Date Created | 2026-02-22 | ||
| Contributors | Harshvardhan J. Pandit | ||
| See More: | section LAWFULNESS in IN-DPDP |
| Term | DPDPLawfulness | Prefix | in-dpdp |
|---|---|---|---|
| Label | DPDP Lawfulness | ||
| IRI | https://w3id.org/dpv/legal/in/dpdp#DPDPLawfulness | ||
| Type | rdfs:Class, skos:Concept, dpv:Lawfulness | ||
| Broader/Parent types | dpv:Lawfulness → dpv:ComplianceStatus → dpv:Status → dpv:Context | ||
| Object of relation | dpv:hasComplianceStatus, dpv:hasContext, dpv:hasLawfulness, dpv:hasStatus | ||
| Definition | Status or state associated with being lawful or legally compliant regarding IN DPDP | ||
| Date Created | 2026-02-22 | ||
| Contributors | Harshvardhan J. Pandit | ||
| See More: | section LAWFULNESS in IN-DPDP |
| Term | DPDPNonCompliant | Prefix | in-dpdp |
|---|---|---|---|
| Label | DPDP Non-compliant | ||
| IRI | https://w3id.org/dpv/legal/in/dpdp#DPDPNonCompliant | ||
| Type | rdfs:Class, skos:Concept, dpv:Lawfulness | ||
| Broader/Parent types | in-dpdp:DPDPLawfulness → dpv:Lawfulness → dpv:ComplianceStatus → dpv:Status → dpv:Context | ||
| Object of relation | dpv:hasComplianceStatus, dpv:hasContext, dpv:hasLawfulness, dpv:hasStatus | ||
| Definition | State of being unlawful or legally non-compliant for IN DPDP | ||
| Date Created | 2026-02-22 | ||
| Contributors | Harshvardhan J. Pandit | ||
| See More: | section LAWFULNESS in IN-DPDP |
DPV uses the following terms from [[RDF]] and [[RDFS]] with their defined meanings:
The following external concepts are re-used within DPV:
The DPVCG was established as part of the SPECIAL H2020 Project, which received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 731601 from 2017 to 2019. Continued developments have been funded under: RECITALS Project funded under the EU's Horizon program with grant agreement No. 101168490.
Harshvardhan J. Pandit was funded to work on DPV from 2020 to 2022 by the Irish Research Council's Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant#GOIPD/2020/790.
The ADAPT SFI Centre for Digital Media Technology is funded by Science Foundation Ireland through the SFI Research Centres Programme and is co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through Grant#13/RC/2106 (2018 to 2020) and Grant#13/RC/2106_P2 (2021 onwards).
The contributions of Harshvardhan J. Pandit have been made with the financial support of Science Foundation Ireland under Grant Agreement No. 13/RC/2106_P2 at the ADAPT SFI Research Centre; and the AI Accountability Lab (AIAL) which is supported by grants from following groups: the AI Collaborative, an Initiative of the Omidyar Group; Luminate; the Bestseller Foundation; and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.