Workshop on Interoperability in Data Spaces

[pchampin]

The TRUSTS EU projects is organizing a workshop on 'Interoperability in Data Spaces', and they would like it to be co-organized by W3C.

Topic and rationale of workshop

The continuously increasing number of data spaces and data markets in Europe, as well as the related funding lines and regulations by the European Commission (for instance the Data Governance Act and several programme lines in Horizon Europe and Digital Europe) regarding the topics of (secure) data sharing of industrial and personal related data as well as research data clearly shows the increasing need to discuss, specify and realise (semantic) data interoperability between such data spaces and beyond.

A discussion about (semantic data) interoperability for data spaces includes (i) data space use cases, (ii) requirements for interoperability, (iii) existing and new standards in the field and (iv) technical solutions in place and in development, (v) working and proven tools & technologies, as well as (vi) legal issues and licenses, besides other topics.

The assumption is that the concept of a data space as defined in IDSA and W3C's work on Linked data are complementary. IDSA is a big user of Linked data specifications and complements them with "connectors" to legacy systems. While W3C provides vocabularies like ODRL for constraints and provenance for data quality, an IDSA data space has a concrete instance of those vocabularies specifying what can be done in a data space, how data is shared and which limitations and obligations apply.

This one-day workshop brings together researchers, decision makers and practitioners in the field of the development and operation of European data spaces, data markets and other web-based data management systems that allow data sharing, trading and data collaboration, to discuss requirements, standards, tools, licenses and more regarding (semantic data) interoperability in data spaces.

The output document will summarise all the inputs and discussions about mainly (a) requirements for interoperability as well as (b) solution approaches for interoperability in data spaces, and thereby it will identify existing gaps in the field, and will be published freely available under an open license / under open access.

Proposed date range

03rd of June 2022, 09.00 - 16.30pm CEST

Proposed host

TRUSTS project
Location: Vienna, Austria

Proposed organizing committee

• TRUSTS project, Trusted Secure Data Sharing Space, https://www.trusts-data.eu/
• W3C / ERCIM - the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, https://www.ercim.eu/
• IDSA - International Data Space Association, https://internationaldataspaces.org/
• Fraunhofer FIT, https://www.fit.fraunhofer.de/
• Semantic Web Company, https://www.semantic-web.com/

Profile of attendees

Targeted workshop participants are researchers, decision makers, and practitioners working on the specification and implementation of data spaces, in the field of industry, personal related data, as well as research data, and open data.

Budget estimate: clarify allocation of costs to Sponsor/W3C

The workshop will be funded by the TRUSTS project.

Accessibility standard

• we do not plan on having prerecorded material
• we are considering real-time English captions for live sessions

Horizontal review

TBD

Sponsor leads

• City of Vienna

Work plan

• 2022-01-14 invite program committee members
• 2022-04-04 publish the Workshop webpage and call for participation
• 2022-06-03 Workshop

[pchampin]

To correct what I told during the strat call yesterday: we are actually considering to make the workshop a hybrid event, but this will eventually depend on budgetary and logistic constraints.

[pchampin]

For further information : the Call for proposal of the workshop (to be soon published on the Web, and sent to relevant mailing lists):

Call for Participation - Position Papers

We are pleased to call for participation in a Workshop:

Data Spaces & Semantic Interoperability
June 03 2022, Vienna, Austria
LINK

To address the topics of interoperability in data spaces and in particular (i) Use Cases in data spaces (ii) Requirements to interoperability and (iii) solution approaches to enable (semantic data) interoperability. While the web of data is an unconstrained space, data spaces are a more regulated vision for the web of data. Actors coming to a data space adhere to a certain concept of data sharing with rules and constraints. Hence the increased need to express options in interoperable ways.

All submissions must have a strong focus on real world applications beyond the prototypical status and demonstrate the power of interoperability in data spaces!

We ask for position papers in the listed and described topics, that can be presented at the workshop as 10 minute lightning talks. Described with (i) a title, (ii) a short 5 page (max.) description, (iii) the name, the role, and the affiliation of the authors as well as of the speaker(s) at the workshop.

The following topics of discussion are expected:

• Use cases and their requirements on semantic interoperability
• Existing solutions for interoperability such as
  • Vocabularies for data spaces
  • Tools for vocabularies and ontologies
  • Clearinghouse tools for vocabularies and ontologies
• Technically expressing constraints in a data space
  • use limitations & policy
  • legal constraints and rights modeling
  • IPR
  • Smart contracts
• Data trading & payment solutions in data spaces
  • purpose modeling
  • value calculation
• Secure Data Sharing
• Security
  • UX in Data Spaces
  • Certification
  • Data quality standards
  • Industrial standards
  • Data protection constraints

The Position Papers will be published on the Workshop’s website. If the number of Position Papers exceeds the availability of slots for presentation, a programme committee will select the papers that will be presented.

[pchampin]

The workshop website is now online: https://www.trusts-data.eu/data-spaces-semantic-interoperability/

[himorin]

no request from i18n