Using ODRL to represent access rights to Public Records at The National Archives (UK)
Keywords: ODRL, RDF, Legislation, Public Records, The National Archives, Freedom of Information
Abstract: This paper discusses a prospective model for describing access rights to public records held at The National
Archives (TNA) using the Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL). In particular, it describes the approach taken to
work out what ODRL policies would be needed to describe record closure. Record closure is a a record access
policy derived from UK Government legislation. This legislation has evolved over time and this has resulted in a
range of closure definitions for individual records depending on when they were transferred to TNA. It describes
a method for generating large numbers of ODRL policy variants in RDF Turtle syntax, based on information held
in an RDBMS, as well as a technical mechanism for linking these policies to the millions of records to which they
apply.
Submission Number: 8
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