Knowledge-Driven Data Ecosystems Toward Data Transparency

Sandra Geisler, Maria Esther Vidal, Cinzia Cappiello, Bernadette Farias Lóscio, Avigdor Gal, Matthias Jarke, Maurizio Lenzerini, Paolo Missier, Boris Otto, Elda Paja, Barbara Pernici, Jakob Rehof

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Abstract

A data ecosystem (DE) offers a keystone-player or alliance-driven infrastructure that enables the interaction of different stakeholders and the resolution of interoperability issues among shared data. However, despite years of research in data governance and management, trustability is still affected by the absence of transparent and traceable data-driven pipelines. In this work, we focus on requirements and challenges that DEs face when ensuring data transparency. Requirements are derived from the data and organizational management, as well as from broader legal and ethical considerations. We propose a novel knowledge-driven DE architecture, providing the pillars for satisfying the analyzed requirements. We illustrate the potential of our proposal in a real-world scenario. Last, we discuss and rate the potential of the proposed architecture in the fulfillmentof these requirements.

Original languageEnglish
Article number3
Number of pages12
JournalJournal of Data and Information Quality
Volume14
Issue number1
Early online date23 Dec 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2022

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
A. Gal was supported by the Benjamin and Florence Free Chair M. Lenzerini was supported by the MUR-PRIN project “HOPE” (grant 2017MMJJRE) and the EU under the H2020-EU.2.1.1 project TAILOR (grant 952215). M.-E. Vidal was supported by the EU H2020 project iASiS (grant 727658) and CLARIFY (grant 875160). S. Geisler was supported by the German Innovation Fund project SALUS (grant 01NVF18002). This work has also supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) in the context of the InDaSpacePlus project (grant 01IS17031), Fraunhofer Cluster of Excellence “Cognitive Internet Technologies” (CCIT), and by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) under Germany’s Excellence Strategy - EXC-2023 Internet of Production - 390621612. Pernici acknowledges the support of the EU H2020 Crowd4SDG project, grant id 872944. Authors’ addresses: S. Geisler, Fraunhofer FIT, Germany, Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, 53757 and RWTH Aachen University, Germany, Ahornstrasse 55, Aachen, 52056 Schloss Birlinghoven, Sankt Augustin, 53757; email: [email protected]; M.-E. Vidal, TIB-Leibniz Information Centre for Science and Technology, Gerrmany, Welfengarten 1B, Hannover, 30167; email: [email protected]; C. Cappiello, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milano, 20133; email: [email protected]; B. F. Lóscio, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, Cidade Universitaria, Recife/PE, 50740-560; email: [email protected]; A. Gal, Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Israel, Technion City, Haifa, 32000; email: [email protected]; M. Jarke, RWTH Aachen University and Fraunhofer FIT, Germany, Ahornstrasse 55, Aachen, 52056; email: [email protected]; M. Lenzerini, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy, via Ariosto 25, Roma, I-00185; email: [email protected]; P. Missier, Newcastle University, United Kingdom, Firebrick Avenue, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE4 5TG; email: [email protected]; B. Otto and J. Rehof, TU Dortmund University, Germany, Otto-Hahn-Str. 12, Dortmund, 44227, Fraunhofer ISST, Germany, Emil-Figge-Straße 91, Dortmund, 44227; emails: {boris.otto, jakob.rehof}@cs.tu-dortmund.de; E. Paja, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Rued Langgaards Vej 7, Copenhagen S, DK-2300; email: [email protected]; B. Pernici, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, piazza Leonardo da Vinci 32, Milano, 20133; email: [email protected]. Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected]. © 2021 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM. 1936-1955/2021/12-ART3 $15.00 https://doi.org/10.1145/3467022

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Keywords

  • data ecosystems
  • data quality
  • Data transparency
  • trustability

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Information Systems
  • Information Systems and Management

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