  In this paper, we summarize work-in-progress on expert system support to
automate some data deposit and release decisions within a data repository, and
to generate custom license agreements for those data transfers.
  Our approach formalizes via a logic programming language the privacy-relevant
aspects of laws, regulations, and best practices, supported by legal analysis
documented in legal memoranda. This formalization enables automated reasoning
about the conditions under which a repository can transfer data, through
interrogation of users, and the application of formal rules to the facts
obtained from users. The proposed system takes the specific conditions for a
given data release and produces a custom data use agreement that accurately
captures the relevant restrictions on data use. This enables appropriate
decisions and accurate licenses, while removing the bottleneck of lawyer effort
per data transfer. The operation of the system aims to be transparent, in the
sense that administrators, lawyers, institutional review boards, and other
interested parties can evaluate the legal reasoning and interpretation embodied
in the formalization, and the specific rationale for a decision to accept or
release a particular dataset.
