The Legal extension uses the following concepts and properties to define laws, authorities, and jurisdictions.
This page provides the following legal concepts:
Copyright © 2025 the Contributors to the Legal Concepts for Estonia (EE) Specification, published by the Data Privacy Vocabularies and Controls Community Group under the W3C Community Final Specification Agreement (FSA). A human-readable summary is available.
The LEGAL-EE extension extends the Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV) Specification to represent laws, authorities, and other legal concepts in EE jurisdiction.
The canonical URL for LEGAL-EE extension is https://w3id.org/dpv/legal/ee, the namespace is https://w3id.org/dpv/legal/ee#, the suggested prefix is legal-ee, and this document along with source and releases are available at https://github.com/w3c/dpv.
DPV Specifications: The [DPV] is the core specification within the DPV family, with the following extensions: Personal Data [PD], Locations [LOC], Risk Management [RISK], Technology [TECH] and [AI], [JUSTIFICATIONS], [SECTOR] specific extensions, and [LEGAL] extensions modelling specific jurisdictions and regulations. 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.
To cite and understand the structure of DPV, the article "Data Privacy Vocabulary (DPV) - Version 2.0" (2024) describes the current state of DPV and extensions from version 2.0 onwards (open access version here). The earlier article "Creating A Vocabulary for Data Privacy" (2019) describes 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.
This specification was published by the Data Privacy Vocabularies and Controls Community Group. It is not a W3C Standard nor is it on the W3C Standards Track. Please note that under the W3C Community Final Specification Agreement (FSA) other conditions apply. Learn more about W3C Community and Business Groups.
GitHub Issues are preferred for discussion of this specification.
The Legal extension uses the following concepts and properties to define laws, authorities, and jurisdictions.
This page provides the following legal concepts:
Laws are represented as instances of dpv:Law, and are associated with their jurisdictions using the [LOC] taxonomy and dpv:hasJurisdiction relation. The webpage for the law, if available, is indicated using foaf:homepage, and the temporal start and end if available, is represented using dct:temporal relation with an instance of time:ProperInterval.
| ID | Name | Jurisdictions | Authorities | Webpage | Start/End |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
legal-eu:law-GDPR
|
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) | European Union (EU) ; Iceland ; Liechtenstein ; Norway | legal-at:DPA-AT, legal-be:DPA-BE, legal-bg:DPA-BG, legal-cy:DPA-CY, legal-cz:DPA-CZ, legal-de:DPA-DE, legal-de:DPA-DE-BB, legal-de:DPA-DE-BE, legal-de:DPA-DE-BY-non-public, legal-de:DPA-DE-BY-public, legal-de:DPA-DE-HB, legal-de:DPA-DE-HE, legal-de:DPA-DE-HH, legal-de:DPA-DE-MV, legal-de:DPA-DE-NI, legal-de:DPA-DE-NW, legal-de:DPA-DE-RP, legal-de:DPA-DE-SH, legal-de:DPA-DE-SL, legal-de:DPA-DE-SN, legal-de:DPA-DE-ST, legal-de:DPA-DE-TH, legal-dk:DPA-DK, legal-ee:DPA-EE, legal-eu:DPA-EDPB, legal-eu:DPA-EDPS | link | 2018-05-25/ongoing |
| Term | DPA-EE | Prefix | legal-ee |
|---|---|---|---|
| Label | Data Protection Inspectorate (AKI) | ||
| IRI | https://w3id.org/dpv/legal/ee#DPA-EE | ||
| Type | rdfs:Class, skos:Concept, eu-gdpr:DataProtectionAuthority | ||
| Broader/Parent types | eu-gdpr:DataProtectionAuthority | ||
| Broader/Parent types | dpv:Law | ||
| Object of relation | dpv:hasApplicableLaw | ||
| Date Created | 2024-08-02 | ||
| has applicable law | General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) | ||
| has jurisdiction | Estonia | ||
| See More: | section LEGAL in LEGAL-EE |
DPV uses the following terms from [RDF] and [RDFS] with their defined meanings:
The following external concepts are re-used within DPV:
E.g. in EU, there are rights, legal basis, etc. in GDPR, DGA, and so on. Provide a consolidated list of these in the EU extension (/legal/legal-eu.ttl) for convenience of use. A bunch of SPARQL queries over extensions should be able to do this.
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.
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.
The changelog provides more information on concepts that have been added/removed in this version.