The Future of Data Spaces
Exchanging data is typically difficult, even within a single organisation, because data is dispersed and "siloed" across various enterprise business processes. Data stemming from heterogeneous sources have syntactic and semantic differences. Thus, transferring data between two or more partners can be enormously challenging.
  1. The primary purpose of a data space is to build a data-driven ecosystem allowing the sovereign and secure data exchange within a "trusted environment" involving multiple players [1].
  2. Insight, at the University of Galway, is one of the leading participants of the Data Spaces Support Centre (DSSC) of the European Commission (EC) with the goal to define a federated technical approach that aims to support data sharing within the participants in the data space.  Prof. Edward Curry has been working within the (EC) (including DG CNECT and DIGIT) on the role of Data Spaces in the European Data Strategy.
  3. Currently the technology landscape for data spaces is innovative and encompasses a rich set of diverse functionalities, yet it is relatively new
  4. Governance is vital for European dataspaces as it drives the EU's core principles of personal data use.
  5. Interoperability is a well-known problem residing at different layers in a multi-tiered architecture. Semantic interoperability is the solution to many data quality and data exchange problems; however, several outstanding challenges create complexities to this type of interoperability in the data spaces.
 
This presentation aims to introduce dataspaces, to highlight some of the challenges and opportunities in relation to dataspaces. It will provide companies with a better understanding of how they might get involved at a National and European level in the dataspace ecosystem
 
References

 

[1] Curry, E., Scerri, S., & Tuikka, T. (2022). Data Spaces: Design, Deployment and Future Directions (p. 357). Springer Nature.

 

https://dataspaces.info/common-european-data-spaces/#page-content

 

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/strategy-data

 

 

Professor Ed Curry

Professor Ed Curry

Director, Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics

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