SDS2023: First International Workshop on Semantics in Dataspaces TheWebConf Austin, TX, United States, April 30-May 1, 2023 |
Conference website | https://dbis.rwth-aachen.de/SDS23/ |
Abstract registration deadline | February 6, 2023 |
Submission deadline | February 6, 2023 |
Semantics in Dataspaces
First International Workshop on Semantics in Dataspaces (SDS 2023)
Collocated with TheWebConf (WWW) on April 30 - May 4, 2023 (workshops on April 30 - May 1)
Submission deadline February 6, 2023
Proceedings published by ACM as Companion Proceedings of TheWebConf 2023
Workshop Overview
In recent years, multiple dataspace initiatives were formed and are growing in both implementation and memberships. Dozens of individual dataspaces and use-cases are arising in their context, as listed in the International Data Spaces Association’s "Data Space Radar" and Gaia-X’ initial list, and even more from other initiatives. The European Union pushes this trend even more by including dataspaces as key element in their data strategy and spending 4-6 billion Euros on establishing these in various domains. The main challenges of this trend on dataspaces are twofold. First, no common definition of dataspaces and their core components exist, which complicates interoperability and FAIRness even at conceptual level. This probably produces isolated solutions tailored to specific use-cases only. Second, the various arising dataspaces in the wild follow different goals and have individual implementations and technology readiness levels. The lack of reusable core components forces stakeholders to reinvent these and leads to diverging implementations and therefore high costs.
The workshop intends to bring together people interested in dataspaces and the role of semantics in these, who may be from different communities such as dataspace drivers, law and policymakers as well as the researchers from the Semantic Web community. Since members of these different communities rarely have chances to interact, we design the workshop to be highly interactive and communicative. We aim at a full-day workshop with ⅔ formal presentations and ⅓ collaboration using the Open Space technique. This approach enables us to identify promising topics for collaboration and follow-up activities by enabling a dynamic agenda driven by the participants’ shared interests.
Topics of Interest
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
Submission
- Full papers (up to 12 pages; max 8 pages main content + 2 pages appendices + 2 references) with original research.
- Short papers (up to 6 pages; including all references) may contain original research in progress.
- Demo papers (up to 6 pages; including all references) may contain descriptions of prototypes, demos or software systems.
- Resource papers (up to 6 pages; including all references) may contain descriptions of resources related to the workshop topics, such as ontologies, knowledge graphs, ground truth datasets, etc.
- Position/vision papers (up to 6 pages; including all references) may discuss vision statements or arguable opinions.
Workshop papers must be self-contained and in English. They should not have been previously published, should not be considered for publication, and should not be under review for another workshop, conference, or journal. Papers must be submitted in PDF format according to the ACM template published in the ACM guidelines using the traditional double-column format ("sample-sigconf" template). Overleaf users may want to use the ACM proceedings template. The PDF files must have all non-standard fonts embedded. Papers will be evaluated according to their significance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, and relevance to the workshop.
Please submit your contributions to the [Workshop] First Workshop on Semantics in Dataspaces (SDS 2023) track on the WWW 2023's EasyChair submission.
Important Dates
Submission | February 06, 2023 | |
Notification of acceptance | March 06, 2023 | |
Registration | March 11, 2023 | |
Camera-Ready submission | March 20, 2023 | |
Final program provided | March 31, 2023 | |
Workshop at WWW | April 30 or May 01, 2023 |
All submission deadlines are end-of-day in the Anywhere on Earth (AoE) time zone.
Participation and Publication
The WWW attendance policy also holds for this workshop: All presenters (keynotes, papers, etc.) must register for the main conference and need to be physically present. No virtual presentations are allowed. It is allowed to foresee a proxy in case the author cannot attend. We however encourage additional participants to join the workshop physically or virtually.
Workshop papers will be included in the WWW'23 companion proceedings, which are archived in the ACM Digital Library. Pre-prints of all contributions will be made available during the conference. All contributions are eligible for the "Best Paper" award.
Workshop Organizers
Workshop chairs:
- Johannes Theissen-Lipp, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Stefan Decker, Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology FIT, Germany
- Edward Curry, University of Galway, Ireland
Please refer to the workshop website for an up-to-date program committee.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to sds@dbis.rwth-aachen.de. Up-to-date information will continuously be posted on the workshop website.