Machine Actionable Policy Templates – Practical Policy WG Recommendations

Practical policy Working Group

Group Co-Chairs: Reagan Moore, RENCI Rainer Stotzka, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Recommendation Title: Machine Actionable Policy Templates

Authors: Reagan Moore; Rainer Stotzka; Claudia Cacciari; Petr Benedikt

Impact: Can be used to enforce management, automate administrative tasks, validate assessment criteria, and automate scientific analyses

Recommendation package DOI: https://doi.org/10.15497/83E1B3F9-7E17-484A-A466-B3E5775121CC

Citation: Reagan Moore; Rainer Stotzka; Claudia Cacciari; Petr Benedikt (2015): Practical Policy. DOI: 10.15497/83E1B3F9-7E17-484A-A466-B3E5775121CC

Computer actionable policies are used to enforce management, automate administrative tasks, validate assessment criteria, and automate scientific analyses.  The benefits of using policies include minimization of the amount of labor needed to manage a collection, the ability to publish to the users the rules that are being used, and the ability to automate process management.

Currently all sites and scientific communities use their own set of policies, if any. A generic set of policies that can be revised and adapted by user communities and site managers who need to build up their own data collection in a trusted environment does not exist.

What are the Goals?

The goals of the working group therefore are

• To bring together practitioners in policy making and policy implementation
• To identify typical application scenarios for policies such as replication, preservation etc.
• To collect and to register practical policies
• To enable sharing, revising, adapting, and re-using of computer actionable policies

Please download the full Practical Policy (PP) WG recommendation package below, as individual sections.

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