DPCat is a Specification for an Interoperable and Machine-Readable Data Processing Catalogue based on GDPR Requirements and EU DPA guidelines. It extends DCAT v2 and DCAT-AP standards and reuses Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV) to enable data governance of ROPA and ROAP related information across a wide variety of use-cases.
See spec at: https://w3id.org/dpcat
Authors:
- Paul Ryan - Uniphar PLC, and Dublin City University
- Rob Brennan - Dublin City University
- Harshvardhan J. Pandit - Trinity College Dublin
Links:
- DPCat Specification - the formal specification of DPCat concepts and requirements on their use
- A Common Semantic Model for ROPA (CSM-ROPA) - the semantic model of ROPA related information generated from an analysis and consolidation of GDPR requirements and 31 EU DPA guidelines and templates
- DPCat demo application and data - an application demonstrating usefulness of DPCat over ROPA documents published by the EDPS
- Draft publication reporting above work: Ryan, Paul, Brennan, Rob, & Pandit, Harshvardhan J. (2022). DPCat: Specification for an Interoperable and Machine-Readable Data Processing Catalogue based on GDPR. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6448788
- Earlier DPCat research published at SEMANTiCS 2021
- DPCat demo presented at SEMANTiCS 2021
Funding: This research has received funding from Uniphar PLC, and the ADAPT Centre for Digital Content Technology which is funded under the SFI Research Centres Programme (Grant 13/RC/2106_P2) and co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund. Harshvardhan J. Pandit has received funding under the Irish Research Council’s Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship Grant#GOIPD/2020/790.