Access Control Framework for Language Collections
Ben Foley, Peter Sefton, Simon Musgrave, Moises Sacal Bonequi
Abstract
This paper introduces the licence-based access control framework developed by the Language Data Commons of Australia (LDaCA) for a range of language collections, with examples given of implementation for significant Indigenous and Australian English collections. Language collections may be curated for many reasons, such as documentation for language revival, for research, security or commercial purposes. Some language collections are created with the intention of being “Open Access”; publicly available with no restriction. Other collections require that access be limited to individuals or groups of people, either at the collection level or at the level of individual items, such as a recording. To facilitate access, while respecting the intended access conditions for a collection, or collection items, some form of user identification and authorisation process is typically required. The access control framework described in this paper is based upon descriptions of access conditions in easy-to-read licences which are stored alongside data files in the collections; and is implemented using identity-based authentication and authorisation systems where required. The framework accommodates accessibility needs from unrestricted to extremely limited access, is dynamic, and able to be modified in response to changes in access needs. Storing licences with the data is a significant development in separating language data and access requirements from access infrastructure.- Anthology ID:
- 2024.lrec-main.10
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2024
- Address:
- Torino, Italia
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Min-Yen Kan, Veronique Hoste, Alessandro Lenci, Sakriani Sakti, Nianwen Xue
- Venues:
- LREC | COLING
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- ELRA and ICCL
- Note:
- Pages:
- 113–121
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2024.lrec-main.10
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Ben Foley, Peter Sefton, Simon Musgrave, and Moises Sacal Bonequi. 2024. Access Control Framework for Language Collections. In Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), pages 113–121, Torino, Italia. ELRA and ICCL.
- Cite (Informal):
- Access Control Framework for Language Collections (Foley et al., LREC-COLING 2024)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2024.lrec-main.10.pdf