[1st CfP] 2nd NeXt-Generation Data Governance workshop @ SEMANTiCS 2025 – NXDG 2025
Beatriz Gonçalves Crisóstomo Esteves (UGent-imec)
Please circulate within your networks. Apologies for multiple postings.
====
2nd NeXt-Generation Data Governance workshop @ SEMANTiCS 2025 – NXDG 2025
Vienna, Austria
September 3–5, 2025
====
Deadline for paper submission: June 14, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)
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.
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.
= Important Dates =
– Paper Submissions: June 14, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)
– Acceptance Notifications: July 05, 2025 (11:59 pm, AoE)
– Conference Date: September 3–5, 2025
= Topics of Interest =
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
- 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
= Author Guidelines and Submission =
For Submission Guidelines please head to the online call for papers:
Contributions will be reviewed in an open manner with OpenReview. Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=SEMANTiCS.cc/2025/Workshop/NXDG
We are looking forward to your contribution!
Beatriz Esteves, Harshvardhan J. Pandit, Ruben Verborgh
NXDG 2025 Organisers