DEco - First International Workshop on Data Ecosystems

Keynote - Dataspaces for Data Ecosystems

Prof. Dr.-Ing. Boris Otto (TU Dortmund University, Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST)

Many data-driven innovation scenarios require exchange and sharing of data among many different partners within an ecosystem. In fact, ecosystems emerge in situations where innovation cannot be achieved by one company alone, but where different data need to be used and re-used collaboratively. Typically, private data from different data providers need to be combined with context (often open) data. Examples can be found in healthcare (personalized medicine), smart cities (traffic management, multi-modal mobility services), and manufacturing (collaborative supply chain management, end-to-end supply chain transparency). Thus, data sharing enables co-opetition in ecosystems when every individual members gives something to gain something. With regard to data sharing in ecosystem, it is clear that a balance is required between using the data and protecting the data. In this context, data spaces represent a promising data integration approach as they embrace a federated data architecture and typically come with measures which foster data sharing while ensuring trust and data sovereignty among participants. Gaia-X and the International Data Spaces (IDS) are initiatives kickstarted in Europe, which aim a setting de-facto standards for data spaces and, hence, supporting European regulation (e.g. Data Governance Act and Data Act). The keynote talk discusses dataspace foundations, presents data ecosystems examples such as Catena-X and provides an outlook to upcoming developments.

Short Biography
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Boris Otto is the Director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering ISST in Dortmund and holds the Chair for Industrial Information Management at the TU Dortmund University. His research focuses on data spaces, data sovereignty and industrial data management. Boris Otto is member of the Boards of Directors of the Gaia-X European Association for Data and Cloud AISBL, the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA), and the Catena-X Automotive Network.

Topics of interest

The suggested topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:

• Metadata management, semantic modeling, and enrichment in data ecosystems
• Data transparency, provenance, and traceability in data ecosystems
• Data sovereignty in data ecosystems
• Concept and mapping discovery for data integration in data ecosystems
• Data quality management and data curation in data ecosystems
• Procedure synthesis in data ecosystems
• Data exchange architectures and concepts, architectures for data ecosystems
• Data security and privacy in data ecosystems
• Formal models and vocabularies for metadata description
• Experiences in domain-specific data ecosystems (health, energy, production, logistics, . . .)
• Responsible and trustable data management in data ecosystems
• Sustainability in Data Ecosystems
• Applications and services for data management and exchange in data ecosystems

Paper Submission

We welcome innovative, original, unpublished papers, that fall under the following two categories:

• Regular papers (up to 12 pages, excluding bibliography) that present complete research results
• Short papers (at least 6 pages, excluding bibliography) on preliminary results that can trigger in-depth discussions in the workshop

Participation

Workshop Chair

• Cinzia Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, cinzia.cappiello@polimi.it
• Sandra Geisler, RWTH Aachen University and Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT, Germany, geisler@cs.rwth-aachen.de
• Maria-Esther Vidal, TIB-Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology and Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany, vidal@l3s.de

Program Committee

• Sören Auer, TIB Leibniz Information Center Science & Technology and University of Hannover, Germany
• Carlos Buil-Aranda, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Spain
• Martin Henze, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Valentina Janev, The Mihajlo Pupin Institute, Serbia
• Christoph Lange-Bever, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
• Maurizio Lenzerini, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
• Adriana Marotta, Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay
• Ernestina Menasalvas, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
• Paolo Missier, Newcastle University, United Kingdom
• Frederik Möller, Technical University of Dortmund, Germany
• Felix Naumann, Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany
• Elda Paja, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Barbara Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Fabio Porto, National Laboratory of Scientific Computation, Brazil
• Christoph Quix, Hochschule Niederrhein, Germany
• Louiqa Raschid, University of Maryland, USA
• Shazia Sadiq, The University of Queensland, Australia
• Juan F. Sequeda, Capsenta, USA