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==An Overview of the NeXt-Generation Data Governance Workshop 2024 ==
https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3759/workshop1.pdf
NeXt-Generation Data Governance 2024 (NXDG 2024)
Beatriz Esteves1,* , Harshvardhan J. Pandit2 and Ruben Verborgh1
1
IDLab, Ghent University — imec, Ghent, Belgium
2
ADAPT Centre, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland
Abstract
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.
Keywords
Data governance, data spaces, data protection, policies, semantic web
Workshop webpage: https://w3id.org/nxdg/2024
1. Workshop description
It’s 2024 and we still can’t visit any website without clicking “Yes” on a cookie banner, exchanging
access to our most private data for the right to browse around. Managing and enforcing our privacy
preferences in a personalised manner is also quite challenging. Additionally, data protection laws are
emerging exponentially following in the footsteps of the GDPR.
In this context, the NeXt-generation Data Governance 2024 workshop aims 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 workshop aims to support
the development of solutions to manage data, policies and provenance in a trustful and interoperable
manner and to aid in the management and reporting of legal documentation falling from the EU’s
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Governance Act (DGA), Data Act, AI Act and
European Health Data Space regulation (EHDS) to create legally-aligned, AI-powered data ecosystems,
using semantic-based specifications such as the Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) [1], the Data
Privacy Vocabulary (DPV) [2] or Solid [3].
As such, this workshop has presentations and discussions of interest to both data providers and
consumers, researchers, standardisation bodies, businesses, and citizens who want to interoperate in the
Data Spaces era. Broadly, we welcomed submissions on topics related to semantics and interoperability,
AI and data governance, data protection, privacy, policy management and enforcement.
2. Accepted Papers
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
SEMANTiCS’24: 20th International Conference on Semantic Systems, September 17–19, 2024, Amsterdam, Netherlands
*
Corresponding author.
$ beatriz.esteves@ugent.be (B. Esteves); me@harshp.com (H. J. Pandit); ruben.verborgh@ugent.be (R. Verborgh)
0000-0003-0259-7560 (B. Esteves); 0000-0002-5068-3714 (H. J. Pandit); 0000-0002-8596-222X (R. Verborgh)
© 2024 Copyright for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
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Proceedings
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:
1. Initiating interdisciplinary research for future-proof data protection in the context of Data Spaces
and semantic interoperable data sharing by Michiel Fierens which addresses challenges currently
facing data protection law in the context of a widespread implementation of Data Spaces and
semantic interoperable data sharing;
2. Towards Cultivating Decentralised Data Privacy, Interoperability and Trust with Semantic PETs
and Visualisations by Anelia Kurteva and John Domingue which proposes development of a
human-centered approach for building trusted self-sovereign decentralised spaces for personal
data governance based on combining semantics with privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) and
the utilisation of graphical visualisations;
3. Towards time privacy policies in ODRL by Juan Cano-Benito, Andrea Cimmino, Raúl García-Castro
which addresses current challenges regarding the use of ODRL by extending the ODRL ontology
and aligning it to other well-known ontologies to support time or temporal policies;
4. Mapping Data Governance Requirements Between the European Union’s AI Act and ISO/IEC 5259:
A Semantic Analysis by Kuruvilla George Aiyankovil, Dave Lewis, Julio Hernandez which uses
semantic web vocabularies to map AI Act Article 10 regarding data governance to the relevant
provisions of the ISO SC42 standard 5259 on ‘Data Quality for Machine Learning’;
5. Me want cookie! Towards automated and transparent data governance on the Web by Jesse Wright,
Rui Zhao, Beatriz Esteves proposes a semi-automated approach for data governance on the Web
by using policy languages to describe data terms of use, and having browsers act on behalf of
users to enact policy-based controls;
6. Defining a new perspective: Enterprise Information Governance by Alastair McCullough proposes a
novel definition of ‘regulatory enterprise information governance’ as a strategic framework that
acts through control mechanisms designed to assure accountability in managing decision rights
over information and data assets in organisations;
7. Using ODRL to represent access rights to Public Records at The National Archives (UK) by Robert
Walpole, Alex Green introduces a prospective model for describing access rights to public records
held at The National Archives (TNA) by using ODRL to manage the record access policies based
on UK Government legislation that has evolved over time.
3. Concluding Remarks
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.
References
[1] R. Iannella, S. Villata, ODRL Information Model 2.2 – W3C Recommendation 15 February 2018,
2018. URL: https://www.w3.org/TR/odrl-model/.
[2] H. J. Pandit, B. Esteves, G. P. Krog, P. Ryan, D. Golpayegani, J. Flake, Data Privacy Vocabulary
(DPV) – Version 2.0, 23rd International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) (to appear - preprint
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.13426) (2024).
[3] R. Verborgh, Re-decentralizing the Web, for good this time, in: O. Seneviratne, J. Hendler (Eds.),
Linking the World’s Information: A Collection of Essays on the Work of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, ACM,
2022. URL: https://ruben.verborgh.org/articles/redecentralizing-the-web/.