In several national and even continental data strategies worldwide, the decentralized data space concept aims to address concerns of data sovereignty among organizations. A significant number of projects and a few already operational data spaces address application domains in industrial domains such as manufacturing, mobility and logistics, or health. However, data sovereignty has also become a key concern of artists and cultural institutions who are pursuing the two-pronged and sometimes conflicting goals of creating added value from data sharing, and protecting their intellectual property and personal privacy rights. Additional challenges of this sector include an orders-of-magnitude larger number of potential players compared to existing data spaces, frequently limited IT capabilities, a complex differentiated system of data types and regulations, and a strong interplay between heterogeneous data integration and creativity, among many others. Also, the different speeds of the involved sub-communities require a sophisticated concept for federated data space evolution. This keynote talk reports experiences of the "Data Space Culture", a lighthouse project of the German Chancellors Office aiming at investigating these issues and demonstrating and evaluating a suitable data ecosystem around four highly visible use cases in the fields of theaters, museums, music training, and networking of existing local culture communities. We also discuss the potential synergies and interoperation challenges with the many other culture digitization initiatives in Europe and beyond.
Short Biography
Matthias Jarke is a professor emeritus of Information Systems and Databases at RWTH Aachen University, Germany, and former Executive Director of the Fraunhofer Institute of Applied Information Technology FIT. Since the 1980s, his research has addressed multiple aspects of cooperative information systems in business, engineering, and culture, ranging from query optimization to data warehouses, meta modeling, requirements enginnering, and web community information management. He served as Editor of journals such as Information Systems, ACM TOIs, or IEEE TSE and program chair of VLDB (1994, 1997), EDBT, CAiSE, ER, and SSDBM. As president of the GI German Informatics society, he coordinated the governmental Informatics Year 2006 in which former Chancellor Merkel initiated the series of annual Digitalization Summits, and as Chairman of the Fraunhofer ICT domain, he co-founded the International Data Space Initiative in 2014. Since 2018, he co-led the National Excellence Cluster "Internet of Production" at RWTH Aachen University, and chairs the scientific board of the German national lighthouse project "Data Space Culture". Matthias is elected Fellow of the ACM and GI, and member of the acatech National Academy of Sciences and Engineering.