Digital Representation of Rights for Language Resources Victor Rodriguez-Doncel Ontology Engineering Group

Language resources are very often valu-able assets which are offered to the pub-lic under the terms of licenses that deter-mine which uses are allowed and under which circumstances. These licenses have been typically published as natural lan-guage texts whose specific contents cannot be easily processed by a computer. This paper proposes a structured representation for the most commonly used licenses for language resources, reusing existing vo-cabularies and extending the Open Digital Rights Language core model. Examples and guidelines to use the ‘Rights Informa-tion for Language Resources ’ vocabulary are given.