SDS 2024: The Second International Workshop on Semantics in Dataspaces Aldemar Knossos Royal & Royal Villa Hersonissos, Greece, May 26-27, 2024 |
Conference website | https://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/SDS24/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sds2024 |
Submission deadline | March 14, 2024 |
Workshop website: https://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/SDS24/
Dataspaces, which are critical to seamless and trusted data sharing, have gained prominence in Europe with the European Data Governance Act (DGA). This legislation defines terms and aims to increase trust, expand data availability, and promote common dataspaces. The impact spans sectors such as data providers, researchers, businesses, and citizens. Initiatives like the European Open Science Cloud and the adoption of the FAIR Data Principles further contribute to the relevance of dataspaces. Efficient data sharing within dataspaces requires semantic interoperability, for which the Semantic Web community has a long history of developing RDF-based solutions.
The Semantic Web Dataspaces (SDS) 2024 workshop seeks to advance semantic methods and solutions for dataspaces by encouraging collaboration between researchers and practitioners. It aims to advance the expressiveness, standardization, and integration of semantic technologies in dataspace architectures. The workshop promises interactive sessions, presentations, and discussions to drive advances in semantics for dataspaces.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
- Full papers describing ...
- Posters describing ...
List of Topics
The topics of this workshop aim to discuss both conceptual definitions and actual implementations of dataspaces, and to promote the role of the Semantic Web in these. The main topics of this workshop include but are not limited to:
Conceptual Perspective:
- Surveys on definitions and visions
- What are dataspaces and what are their core elements?
- How are components and data life cycles structured?
- Formal models of dataspaces
- The role of stakeholders in decision processes
- Impact and potential of unique identifiers
- Conceptual reusable assets
State-of-the-art Implementations:
- How do arising dataspaces coincide/differ with each other?
- Requirements of customers, stakeholders, and politics
- Who drives their implementations and what are their technology readiness levels?
- Common reusable elements and standards
- Gap between academic definitions and actual implementations
Semantics for Dataspaces:
- Review of arising dataspaces with a focus on the Semantic Web
- Potential of methods and solutions from the Semantic Web for dataspaces
- Tailored benefits of ontologies, unique identifiers, algorithms, etc.
- Measuring political, practical, scientific, performance, etc. challenges for adoption.
Committees
Program Committee
See https://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/SDS24/ for the up-to-date PC.
Organizing committee
- Johannes Theissen-Lipp, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Pieter Colpaert, Ghent University, Belgium
- Sulayman K. Sowe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Edward Curry, University of Galway, Ireland
- Stefan Decker, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Invited Speakers
Alexandra Balahur
Short Bio: Dr. Alexandra Balahur is the Team Leader of SEMIC, in the Interoperability Unit of DG DIGIT - the team that developed open semantic specifications such as DCAT-AP, used across different open data catalogues and data spaces. Alexandra has a background in Computer Science, with a PhD in AI and NLP and 15 years of experience in scientific research and technical implementation of AI and data modeling and analysis methods and applications. Apart from leading the SEMIC team, Alexandra is also coordinating the input across the directorate on the work on data spaces, with an emphasis of interoperability by design.
Venue
The workshop will be held in conjunction with the Extended Semantic Web Conference (ESWC 2024) in Hersonissos, Greece. See https://2024.eswc-conferences.org/ for details on the ESWC.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to sds@dbis.rwth-aachen.de