May the FORCE be with you? A framework for ODRL rule compliance through evaluation
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- Wout Slabbinck (UGent) , Julian Andres Rojas Melendez (UGent) , Beatriz Gonçalves Crisóstomo Esteves (UGent) , Ruben Verborgh (UGent) and Pieter Colpaert (UGent)
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- Abstract
- Driven by data protection laws, interest in decentralized data sharing solutions has surged in recent years. To implement these solutions effectively, usage control is essential for ensuring regulatory compliance and interoperability. The Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) standard stands out as a potential unified language for formulating fine-grained usage control policies, which must be consistently enforced through a policy engine across every node in the decentralized network. However, how to reliably and uniformly interpret ODRL policies remains an open problem, often leaving implementers to devise their own solutions. To address this problem, this work introduces the Framework for ODRL Rule Compliance through Evaluation (FORCE), designed to assist in policy development and enhance comprehension of evaluation outputs. FORCE is built upon the ODRL Evaluator – a component rigorously tested using the ODRL Test Suite. FORCE’s main contributions are i) a guide on the several specifications and pieces of software we are building to work with the current standard and to test new features for a possible future version of the standard, and ii) a Web application that acts as a playground to test these specifications and software libraries. Future work could expand FORCE to include more powerful ODRL Evaluators that can deal with conflict resolution or policy instantiation
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- Policy, ODRL, Usage Control
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01K80SJ161A9KN0D4TJSCZAMS8
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- Slabbinck, Wout, et al. “May the FORCE Be with You? A Framework for ODRL Rule Compliance through Evaluation.” SEMANTICS-PDWT 2025, edited by D. Chaves-Fraga et al., vol. 4064, CEUR, 2025.
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- Slabbinck, W., Rojas Melendez, J. A., Gonçalves Crisóstomo Esteves, B., Verborgh, R., & Colpaert, P. (2025). May the FORCE be with you? A framework for ODRL rule compliance through evaluation. In D. Chaves-Fraga, I. Heibi, D. Garijo, D. Collarana, A. Salatino, & S. Vahdati (Eds.), SEMANTICS-PDWT 2025 (Vol. 4064). CEUR.
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- Slabbinck, Wout, Julian Andres Rojas Melendez, Beatriz Gonçalves Crisóstomo Esteves, Ruben Verborgh, and Pieter Colpaert. 2025. “May the FORCE Be with You? A Framework for ODRL Rule Compliance through Evaluation.” In SEMANTICS-PDWT 2025, edited by D. Chaves-Fraga, I. Heibi, D. Garijo, D. Collarana, A. Salatino, and S. Vahdati. Vol. 4064. CEUR.
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- Slabbinck, Wout, Julian Andres Rojas Melendez, Beatriz Gonçalves Crisóstomo Esteves, Ruben Verborgh, and Pieter Colpaert. 2025. “May the FORCE Be with You? A Framework for ODRL Rule Compliance through Evaluation.” In SEMANTICS-PDWT 2025, ed by. D. Chaves-Fraga, I. Heibi, D. Garijo, D. Collarana, A. Salatino, and S. Vahdati. Vol. 4064. CEUR.
- Vancouver
- 1.Slabbinck W, Rojas Melendez JA, Gonçalves Crisóstomo Esteves B, Verborgh R, Colpaert P. May the FORCE be with you? A framework for ODRL rule compliance through evaluation. In: Chaves-Fraga D, Heibi I, Garijo D, Collarana D, Salatino A, Vahdati S, editors. SEMANTICS-PDWT 2025. CEUR; 2025.
- IEEE
- [1]W. Slabbinck, J. A. Rojas Melendez, B. Gonçalves Crisóstomo Esteves, R. Verborgh, and P. Colpaert, “May the FORCE be with you? A framework for ODRL rule compliance through evaluation,” in SEMANTICS-PDWT 2025, Vienna, Austria, 2025, vol. 4064.
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To implement these solutions effectively, usage control is essential for ensuring regulatory compliance and
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for formulating fine-grained usage control policies, which must be consistently enforced through a policy engine
across every node in the decentralized network. However, how to reliably and uniformly interpret ODRL policies
remains an open problem, often leaving implementers to devise their own solutions. To address this problem, this
work introduces the Framework for ODRL Rule Compliance through Evaluation (FORCE), designed to assist in
policy development and enhance comprehension of evaluation outputs. FORCE is built upon the ODRL Evaluator
– a component rigorously tested using the ODRL Test Suite. FORCE’s main contributions are i) a guide on the
several specifications and pieces of software we are building to work with the current standard and to test new
features for a possible future version of the standard, and ii) a Web application that acts as a playground to test
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