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Dataspaces Community Group

Dataspaces gather requirements for seamless and trusted data exchange within specific domains and translate the requirements into technical specifications. The W3C already recommends standards for trust, interoperability, and data value. Our goal in this group is to collect scenarios from the dataspaces built by our members and manage best practices for implementing them with W3C specifications. Where those standards are not sufficient, we envision formulating questions to other community and working groups, and providing dataspace-specific normative text for specific scenarios. The Dataspaces Community Group aims to meet every year at the ESWC conference.

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Group's public email, repo and wiki activity over time

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Call for Participation in Dataspaces Community Group

The Dataspaces Community Group has been launched:


Dataspaces gather requirements for seamless and trusted data exchange within specific domains and translate the requirements into technical specifications.
The W3C already recommends standards for trust, interoperability, and data value. Our goal in this group is to collect scenarios from the dataspaces built by our members and manage best practices for implementing them with W3C specifications. Where those standards are not sufficient, we envision formulating questions to other community and working groups, and providing dataspace-specific normative text for specific scenarios. The Dataspaces Community Group aims to meet every year at the ESWC conference.


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This is a community initiative. This group was originally proposed on 2024-05-27 by Pieter Colpaert. The following people supported its creation:

Pieter Colpaert, Edward Curry, Dr. Sulayman K Sowe, Masashi Kutsuna, Stefan Decker, Johannes Theissen-Lipp. W3C’s hosting of this group does not imply endorsement of the activities.

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