The NeXt-generation Data Governance workshops aim to bring together technical, legal and societal researchers, and industry experts to discuss data governance, emergence of data spaces and the impact of the European strategy for data in such systems. The 2024 edition promoted submissions on topics related to semantics and interoperability, AI and data governance, data protection, privacy, policy management and enforcement. From the received 8 submissions, 5 were accepted and 2 were initially conditionally accepted for publication following an open review strategy by researchers with a background knowledge on the technical, legal and/or societal domains promoted by this workshop. We aim towards having a second edition of this workshop next year, to further establish collaborations between researchers in this field.
The workshop received 8 submissions and each submission was reviewed by at least 2 members of NXDG’s Programme Committee. From these submissions, 7 were accepted and 1 was rejected based on the reviewer’s comments. The reviewing took place on the OpenReview platform with the reviews published at https://openreview.net/group?id=SEMANTiCS.cc/2024/Workshop/NXDG. The workshop programme and proceedings are available at https://w3id.org/nxdg/2024.
The 7 accepted papers are as follows:
The NXDG workshop programme highlights the renewed focus on data governance based on the ‘next-generation’ paradigms emerging in the current ecosystem - namely Data Spaces, AI, Web Privacy, and Standards. We hope the workshop acts as a lightning rod to attract renewed interest in applying data governance fundamentals to these new areas and the workshop becomes a regular event for stakeholders to gather and discuss data governance, data protection, privacy, and policy in a manner that facilitates discussions and leads to advances in responsible innovation in the aforementioned areas.