Programme
03 September 2025 15:00 - 18:00 CEST
- 15h - Opening and welcome
- 15h10 - Elif Beyza Akkanat-Öztürk, "Beyond Disclosure: Rethinking Transparency and Digital Vulnerability under the Digital Services Act" preprint | slides
- 15h30 - Paul Feichtenschlager, Christoph Fabianek, Fajar J. Ekaputra, Sebastian Haas, and Gabriel Unterholzer, "A Configurable Anonymisation Service for Semantically Annotated Data: A Case Study on REC Data" preprint | slides
- 15h50 - Rob Brennan, Junli Liang, and Akila Wickramasekara, "Prototyping an HEALTH DCAT-AP data catalogue to support population health indicator identification and quality assessment" preprint | slides
- 16h10 - Delaram Golpayegani, Harshvardhan J. Pandit, and Dave Lewis, "Semantic Patterns of Prohibited AI Systems in the EU AI Act" preprint | slides
- 16h30 - Break
- 16h40 - Eugenia I. Papagiannakopoulou, Nikolaos L. Dellas, Georgios V. Lioudakis, Maria N. Koukovini, and Aziz Mousas, "Semantic conflict resolution for access and usage control" preprint | slides
- 17h00 - Pascal Derycke, Beatriz J. Barros, Nienke M. Schutte, Charles-Andrew Vande Catsyne, and Martina Bargeman Fonseca, "Designing DCAT-AP extensions for common European data spaces: The EHDS HealthDCAT-AP Case Study" preprint | slides
- 17h20 - Wout Slabbinck, Julian Rojas, Beatriz Esteves, Ruben Verborgh, and Pieter Colpaert, "May the FORCE be with you? A Framework for ODRL Rule Compliance through Evaluation" preprint | slides
- 17h40 - Wrap up & Close
Organisation
Workshop Organisers
- Beatriz Esteves
imec - Ghent University, Belgium | contact: beatriz.esteves@ugent.be - Harshvardhan J. Pandit
ADAPT Centre, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland | contact: me@harshp.com - Ruben Verborgh
imec - Ghent University, Belgium | contact: ruben.verborgh@ugent.be
Programme Committee
- Rob BRENNAN (University College Dublin, IE)
- Ben DE MEESTER (imec - Ghent University, BE)
- Michiel FIERENS (KU Leuven, BE)
- Kimberly GARCIA (University of St Gallen, CH)
- Patrick HOCHSTENBACH (imec - Ghent University, BE)
- Julio HERNANDEZ (Trinity College Dublin, IE)
- Ross HORNE (University of Strathclyde, UK)
- Jakob MERANE (ETH Zurich, CH)
- Renato IANNELLA (University of Hong Kong, HK)
- Georg P. KROG (Signatu AS, NO)
- Anelia KURTEVA (University of Birmingham, UK)
- Chang SUN (Maastricht University, NL)
- Rigo WENNING (W3C Legal Counsel)
- Rui ZHAO (University of Oxford, UK)
Call for papers
It's 2025 and we still can't visit any website without clicking "Yes" on a cookie banner, exchanging access to our most private data for the right to browse around. Managing and enforcing our privacy preferences in a personalised manner is also quite challenging. Additionally, data protection laws are emerging exponentially following in the footsteps of the GDPR.
In this context, the NeXt-generation Data Governance 2025 workshop aims to bring together technical, legal and societal researchers, and industry experts to discuss data governance, emergence of data spaces and the impact of the European strategy for data in such systems. The workshop aims to support the development of solutions to manage data, policies and provenance in a trustful and interoperable manner and to aid in the management and reporting of legal documentation falling from the EU's GDPR for data protection and the DGA, Data Act, AI Act and EHDS to create legally-aligned, AI-powered data ecosystems, using semantic-based specifications such as ODRL, DPV or Solid.
As such, this workshop will have presentations and discussions of interest to both data providers and consumers, researchers, standardisation bodies, businesses, and citizens who want to interoperate in the Data Spaces era.
Broadly, we welcome submissions on any of the following topics: semantics and interoperability, AI & data governance, regulations, data protection, privacy, policy management and enforcement. A non-exhaustive list of suggested topics is below:
- Role of the Semantic Web in the European strategy for data
- FAIR management and interoperability of data spaces
- Management of data altruism / intermediation services activities
- Legal and governance aspects of data spaces
- Legal and governance aspects of IoT data management
- Legal and governance aspects of AI models and AI-generated data
- AI governance
- Policies for access and usage control
- Policy management and enforcement in data spaces
- Going beyond consent for personal data processing
- Data spaces and secondary reuse of data
- Reasoning over data and data policies
- Negotiation of access to data through Web agents
- Personalisation of data management interfaces
- Usability of data management interfaces
- Digital identity and data wallets
- User-centric perspectives on privacy and data protection
- Decentralisation and personal data spaces
- Personal knowledge graphs
- Standards for personal data management
- Standards for AI-based systems
- Auditing methods/tools for data spaces
Submission Instructions
Submissions must use the official CEUR-Workshop style format with one-column format. CEUR also provides templates in a zip-file and in an Overleaf project.
The workshop will accept two types of contributions:
- Full papers must be at least 8 and at most 16 pages of main content, with additional pages for references.
- Short/demo papers must be at least 5 and at most 7 pages of main content, with additional pages for references.
Papers that do not meet the size and formatting requirements will not be reviewed. All papers must be in PDF format and submitted through OpenReview.
The review process is open. Papers do not need to be anonymised prior to submission for review.
Workshop proceedings will be published in a CEUR-Workshop Proceedings Volume.
Key dates
- submission deadline:
June 14, 2025July 04, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE) - notification by:
July 05, 2025July 23, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE) - camera-ready by: August 04, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)
Previous Editions of NXDG
- NXDG 2024 took place on 17-SEP-2024 and was co-located with the 20th SEMANTiCS conference.
📰 Updates/News 📰
04-SEP: Posted links to slides for presented papers.
13-AUG: Programme schedule and paper details.
25-JUL: Notification of decisions and reviews sent to authors.
21-MAY: Submission deadline extension from 14-JUN to 04-JUL.
14-APR: Post call for papers.
Funding Acknowledgements: The imec - Ghent University organisers of this workshop have received funding from SolidLab Vlaanderen (Flemish Government, EWI and RRF project VV023/10). The AI Accountability LAb (AIAL) is supported by grants from following groups: the AI Collaborative, an Initiative of the Omidyar Group; the Bestseller Foundation; and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. The ADAPT SFI Centre for Digital Media Technology is funded by Science Foundation Ireland through the SFI Research Centres Programme and is co-funded under the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) through Grant#13/RC/2106_P2.