Digital Ontology-based Rights Management for Archival Collections

4 pages•Published: October 28, 2026

Abstract

The "Deutsches Kunstarchiv" at the "Germanisches Nationalmuseum" in Nuremberg applied for funding of a two-year pilot project by the "Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft", which focuses on objects that are "(still) subject to legal restrictions". The aim of the project is to expand the current archival technical infrastructure, based on the "CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model", by integrating a Rights Expression Language such as the "Open Digital Rights Language". This integration provides a technical framework to record the outcome of a case-by-case rights assessment in a machine-readable format.

Keyphrases: archives, cidoc crm, odrl, ontology, rights expression language, semantic web, wisski

In: Andrea Cimmino Arriaga, Beatriz Esteves, Nicoletta Fornara and Víctor Rodríguez Doncel (editors). Proceedings of 2nd Workshop ODRL and Beyond: Practical Applications and challenges for poLicy-base access and usage control, OPAL 2026, vol 113, pages 1-4.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/3hFf
	https://doi.org/10.29007/n26r

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{OPAL2026:Digital_Ontology_based_Rights,
  author    = {Kathrin Fischeidl and Katharina Hefele},
  title     = {Digital Ontology-based Rights Management for Archival Collections},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 2nd Workshop ODRL and Beyond: Practical Applications and challenges for poLicy-base access and usage control, OPAL 2026},
  editor    = {Andrea Cimmino Arriaga and Beatriz Esteves and Nicoletta Fornara and Víctor Rodríguez Doncel},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Computing},
  volume    = {113},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-7340},
  url       = {/publications/paper/3hFf},
  doi       = {10.29007/n26r},
  pages     = {1-4},
  year      = {2026}}

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