Members of the OASIS Classification of Everyday Living (COEL) TC [1] have recently approved a Special Majority Ballot [2] to advance Classification of Everyday Living Version 1.0 as a Candidate OASIS Standard (COS). The COS now enters a 60-day public review period in preparation for a member ballot to consider its approval as an OASIS Standard.
Classification of Everyday Living Version 1.0
Candidate OASIS Standard 01
18 October 2018Specification Overview:
The OASIS COEL specification provides a privacy-by-design framework for the collection and processing of behavioural data. It is uniquely suited to the transparent use of dynamic data for personalised digital services, IoT applications where devices are collecting information about identifiable individuals and the coding of behavioural data in identity solutions. The specification pseudonymises personal data at source and maintains a separation of different data types with clearly defined roles & responsibilities for all actors. All behavioural data are defined as event-based packets. Every packet is connected directly to an individual and can contain a summary of the consent they provided for the processing of the data. A combination of a taxonomy of all human behaviours (the COEL model) and the event-based protocol provide a universal template for data portability. Simple interface specifications enforce the separation of roles and provide system-level interoperability.
The TC received 5 Statements of Use from Activinsights, Coelition, Fujitsu, OpenConsent, and University of Exeter [3].
Public Review Period:
The 60-day public review starts 10 November 2018 at 00:00 UTC and ends 08 January 2019 at 23:59 UTC.
This is an open invitation to comment. OASIS solicits feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.
The prose specification document and related files are available here:
Editable source (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/coel/COEL/v1.0/cos01/COEL-v1.0-cos01.docx
HTML:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/coel/COEL/v1.0/cos01/COEL-v1.0-cos01.html
PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/coel/COEL/v1.0/cos01/COEL-v1.0-cos01.pdf
COEL model v1.0:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/coel/COEL/v1.0/cos01/model/coel.json
Schemas for Behavioural Atom Specification and Public Query Interface (PQI):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/coel/COEL/v1.0/cos01/schemas/
ZIP distribution file (complete):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/coel/COEL/v1.0/cos01/COEL-v1.0-cos01.zipAdditional information about the specification and the COEL TC may be found at the TC's public home page:
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/coel/Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility as explained in the instructions located via the button labeled "Send A Comment" at the top of the TC public home page, or directly at:
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=coelComments submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of this TC are publicly archived and can be viewed at:
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/coel-comment/All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public review of Classification of Everyday Living Version 1.0, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [4] applicable especially [5] to the work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member's patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification.
OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC's work.
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[1] OASIS Classification of Everyday Living (COEL) TC
https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/coel/[2] http://www.oasis-open.org/who/intellectualproperty.php
[3] Statements of Use:
Coelition: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/coel/email/archives/201808...
Activinsights: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/coel/email/archives/201807...
Fujitsu: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/coel/email/archives/201808...
University of Exeter: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/coel/email/archives/201808...
OpenConsent: https://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/coel/email/archives/201808...[4] http://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr
[5] http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/coel/ipr.php
https://www.oasis-open.org/policies-guidelines/ipr#RF-on-RAND-Mode
RF on RAND Mode
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