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3rd NeXt-Generation Data Governance workshop @ SEMANTiCS 2026 – NXDG 2026
Ghent, Belgium
September 15–17, 2026
https://nxdg-workshop.github.io/2026/
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Deadline for paper submission: June 25, 2026 (11:59 pm, AoE)
The NeXt-generation Data Governance 2026 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 25, 2026 (11:59 pm, AoE)
– Acceptance Notifications: July 30, 2026 (11:59 pm, AoE)
– Conference Date: September 15–17, 2026
= 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:
https://nxdg-workshop.github.io/2026/
Contributions will be reviewed in an open manner with OpenReview. Submission link: https://openreview.net/group?id=SEMANTiCS.cc/2026/Workshop/NXDG
We are looking forward to your contribution!
Beatriz Esteves, Harshvardhan J. Pandit, Ruhi Anand Finn
NXDG 2026 Organisers