Proposal 3: Newhas_permission_type object property #40
Description
Issue: Gap 3 – has_permission_type object property
New terms / entities
has_permission_type(object property)
Type
- Object property
Rationale
In the current ICO-based pattern, determining the type of permission attached to a study (e.g., general research use, disease-specific research only, non-commercial use, commercial use allowed) often requires traversing several hops:
- study → informed consent form → consent directives → DUO data use permission / data use modifiers or ICO permission-type classes.
For discovery use cases, this is expensive and fragile. A simple shortcut relation from the study (or dataset) to a high-level permission-type class would:
- enable direct queries such as “find studies allowing commercial use”;
- allow multiple permission facets (e.g., DUO primary category plus modifiers) to be attached to a study-level node;
- preserve the rich underlying modeling while adding a practical summary relation.
Details
has_permission_type
- Label: has permission type
- Definition:
Relates a research study, dataset, or informed consent rule specification to a permission-type class that summarizes the allowed or restricted uses of participants’ data and/or specimens under that consent (e.g., general research use, disease-specific research only, health/medical/biomedical research, non-commercial use only, commercial use allowed). - Domain (intended):
- Primarily: research study / investigation (the entity users search over)
- Optionally also applicable to: dataset or informed consent rule specification
- Range (intended):
- Permission-type classes, for example:
- DUO data use permission classes (e.g., general research use, health/medical/biomedical research, disease specific research)
- DUO data use modifier classes (e.g., clinical care use, no general methods research, non-commercial use only)
- ICO-native permission-type classes (e.g., a class for “commercial use permitted”, if added)
- Permission-type classes, for example:
- Subproperty of:
owl:topObjectProperty(a more specific parent can be chosen by ICO maintainers if desired) - Example of usage:
- Without this property, a query for “studies allowing commercial use” may require three or more joins through consent documents and DUO terms.
- With this property, we can assert directly:
and query:
:Study_3 ext:has_permission_type ext:permissionCommercialUse .
?study ext:has_permission_type ext:permissionCommercialUse .