In this second IDSA Tech Talk on semantic interoperability in data spaces we shared our view and lessons learned on the role of Application profiles in specifying semantics for data spaces. Thank you IDSA for the opportunity to share and learn from the data spaces community.
From September 17-19, 2024, SEMANTICS 2024 will be held in Amsterdam. At this conference, we will have the opportunity to present a tutorial on Semantics in Data Spaces. Our session will focus on Semantic Treehouse as a vocabulary hub. This tutorial offers a practical perspective on semantics in data spaces and presents the open challenges in an interactive manner. It includes an introduction to data spaces and the role of a vocabulary hub in data spaces, based on the current knowledge from the Data Spaces Support Centre.
For more information, to register, and to view the planned agenda for the tutorial, please see below or visit the following link: Register here.
Data sharing accelerates innovations within and across sectors, leading to the development of new solutions. For a growing number of companies, this turns data into a strategic asset over which they want to maintain control. The European strategy for data aims to create common European data spaces to ensure Europe’s global competitiveness and data sovereignty. Data spaces are distributed systems designed to facilitate secure and trustworthy data exchanges between participants, emphasizing trust and data sovereignty. One of the crucial aspect in making this happen is semantics, which enables consistent and unambiguous data sharing between participants of a data space. Achieving semantic interoperability is a continuous balancing act between maintaining strict uniformity for consistent and easily understandable data, and accommodating the diverse requirements of different data space participants.
This tutorial offers practical insights into shaping semantics within data spaces, with TNO’s Semantic Treehouse as so-called vocabulary hub as an important means. The tutorial highlights the challenges and presents solutions for achieving semantic interoperability in the context of data spaces.
Thanks to our friends at IDSA, I had the opportunity to talk about semantic interoperability in data spaces. Here's the official description of the event:
On the 15th of March I had the opportunity to present the concept of a Vocabulary Hub in the "Towards data spaces" track of the ENDORSE conference 2023.
You can downloaded the Presentation slides and read our position on the Vocabulary Hub.
Op 3 november organiseerde TNO een Semantic Treehouse gebruikersmiddag in Utrecht. Aan alle deelnemers onze hartelijke dank voor jullie aanwezigheid en waardevolle inbreng!
Het doel van deze middag was tweeledig. TNO wilde samen met klanten en collega standaardisatie-experts:
Today we had the opportunity to present our applied research activities in the field of semantic interoperability in data spaces to the PLDN community. PLDN is the community of linked data experts in the Netherlands. In my presentation I positioned the importance of semantics, shared ontologies and a Vocabulary Hub in realizing semantic interopability in a data space.
The slides I used for my presentation can be downloaded here: Slides PLDN presentation
More about the PLDN event: event page
To read more about the topic of semantic interoperability in data space, please take a look at our position paper The Vocabulary Hub to configure data space connectors
Our colleague Wouter van den Berg (TNO) presented our position paper The Vocabulary Hub to configure data space connectors at the workshop Data Space & Semantic Interoperability in Vienna.
In this position paper we propose a wizard-like approach for data space connector configuration, where data consumers and data providers are guided through a sequence of steps to generate the specifications of their data space connectors, based on the shared vocabularies in the vocabulary hub. We illustrate this with our own implementation of a vocabulary hub, called Semantic Treehouse.
You can download the paper here: The Vocabulary Hub to configure data space connectors or read online about the Vocabulary Hub