Interoperability and Standards in the European Data Economy
Report on EC Workshop
14th MARCH 2016, 09:00-17:00
10 RUE ROBERT STUMPER, EUROFORUM BUILDING LUXEMBOURG
Prepared by David Esteban Managing Director TECHFORCE Vía Augusta, 2 bis planta 5 E-08006 Barcelona (SPAIN) [email protected]
May – 2016
Funded by
EUROPEAN COMMISSION Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology Directorate G — Media & Data Unit G.3 — Data Value Chain
Contact: Carola Carstens, Daniele Rizzi E-mail: [email protected]
European Commission L-2920 Luxembourg
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION ...... 2 2. AGENDA ...... 3 3. INTEROPERABILITY AND STANDARDS IN THE EUROPEAN DATA ECONOMY ...... 4 3.1. Setting the scene ...... 4 3.2. Tour de table ...... 4 3.3. (Big) data interoperability and standards for the European Data Economy: Current initiatives ...... 6 3.4. Group discussions: Identifying cross-cutting issues in the standardisation landscape of the European Data Economy ...... 8 4. GROUP DISCUSSIONS SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS ...... 9 5. WORKSHOP CLOSING ...... 12 ANNEX I. RESULTS OF PARALLEL GROUP DISCUSSIONS ...... 13 I.1. Results of the Group 1 discussion on (Big) Data interoperability ...... 13 I.2. Results of the Group 2 discussion on Interoperability of Big Data technologies ...... 15 I.3. Results of the Group 3 discussion on Interoperability enablers for data access, sharing and reuse ...... 17 ANNEX II. ATTENDANCE LIST ...... 20
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1. INTRODUCTION
The European Commission's Data Value Chain Unit (G.3) at DG CONNECT organised a workshop on "Interoperability and Standards in the European Data Economy" on 14th March 2016, held at the EUROFORUM Building in Luxembourg from 9:00 until 17:00.
The aim of the workshop was to identify cross-cutting issues in the standardisation landscape of the European data economy.
The workshop was intended to give the attendants the opportunity to provide input to European policy discussions on data interoperability and standards, and to exchange views and network with other stakeholders of the European data ecosystem.
The workshop aimed at sharing and discussing issues related with interoperability and standards in the European Data Economy, under an informal and open approach intended to explore key topics and action aspects that should be taken into consideration for current and future policy activities.
The workshop was based on personal invitation to potential participants whose attendance was expected to provide a broad coverage of data interoperability expertise in terms of levels of responsibilities, sector/activities, skills and experience. The very high attendance rate confirmed the overall interest in the subject.
The key areas for discussion at the workshop were defined as:
• (Big) Data interoperability • Interoperability of Big Data technologies • Interoperability enablers for data access, sharing and reuse
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2. AGENDA
09:00-09:30 Registration
09:30-10:00 Welcome and setting the scene Márta Nagy-Rothengass, Head of Unit Data Value Chain, DG CONNECT, EC & Beatrice Covassi, Deputy Head of Unit
10:00-11:15 Tour de table All participants are invited to briefly present themselves and make short oral opening statements on their priorities
11:15-12:25 (Big) data interoperability and standards for the European Data Economy: Current initiatives
Introduction Short contributions by the EC and various standardisation initiatives: • Emilio Davila-Gonzalez, EC, DG Connect, Innovation Unit • Carola Carstens, EC, DG Connect, Data Value Chain Unit • Craik Gavin, ETSI • Leif Bonorden, FZI Karlsruhe & Cédric Mora, Ministère de l'Économie, de l'Industrie et du Numérique • Laure Le Bars: SAP Research, Smart Data Innovation Lab Deputy Coordinator, BDVA President's Office • Felix Sasaki: DFKI / W3C Fellow and BDVA TF6 SG6 on Big Data Standardisation Vice-Chair • Abdellatif Benjelloun Touimi, Huawei Technologies (UK) and BDVA TF6 SG6 on Big Data Standardisation Chair
12:25-12:45 Discussion on presented initiatives
12:45-14:00 Networking lunch
14:00-15:30 Group discussions: Identifying cross-cutting issues in the standardisation landscape of the European Data Economy
• (Big) Data interoperability • Interoperability of Big Data technologies • Interoperability enablers for data access, sharing and reuse
15:30-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-16:45 Presentation of discussion results (by group moderators)
16:45-17.00 Wrap-up and conclusions
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3. INTEROPERABILITY AND STANDARDS IN THE EUROPEAN DATA ECONOMY
3.1. Setting the scene
The workshop was opened by Márta Nagy-Rothengass, Head of Unit Data Value Chain, Directorate General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology. She welcomed all participants and expressed her appreciation for the excellence and the quality of the responses to the questionnaire that was circulated prior to the workshop in order to gather preliminary areas of interest.
The workshop started by stressing the importance of the targeted topic of “Interoperability and Standards in the European Data Economy” as well as the perceived need for actions aimed at significantly boosting generating added value from data.
The workshop's focus was on industry needs and opportunities for data use in industry contexts, with particular emphasis in identifying and discussing related cross-cutting aspects across industry sectors.
The aim of the workshop was highlighted as being naturally aligned with the objectives of the Data Value Chain Unit, which is generating added value from data and contributing to the development of main European policies (the Digital Single Market strategy being a clear example).
Interoperability is seen as an important element, and a challenge, in the digitisation of the industry and of the society. In this sense the high involvement of the industry in the workshop (and in particular of those responsible for implementation and research) was particularly welcome, as well as of the representatives from some Member State initiatives (Germany, France) and standardisation bodies, thus enabling for further opportunities to connect with industry representatives from several sectors.
The involvement of representatives from a number of Commission services reflected the cross-cutting aspect of the workshop topic.
The circulation of a questionnaire prior to the workshop which asked participants to express priorities in the domain of (big) data interoperability and the received answers helped the workshop organisers to grasp potential areas of interest and key topics, that were used to articulate the group discussion topics into three parallel tracks.
3.2. Tour de table
The applied selection criteria for the invitation to potential participants took from the very beginning into consideration assuring the broadest 4
Interoperability and Standards in the European Data Economy – Report on EC Workshop possible representation of different domains, industry sectors and motivations.
The final composition of the attendance to the workshop resulted in the desired coverage, as it was composed of representatives of industry (including finance, health, retail and consumer, information technology and communications sectors), standards developing organizations, academia and research, public administrations, as well as representatives from several EC Directorates General.
The attendees to the workshop were kindly invited to briefly introduce themselves, and to contribute with “position statements” on standardisation and interoperability priorities, which could be used as starting points and as discussion catalysers.
STATEMENTS CONSOLIDATION
The statements expressed by the attendants were broad and rich in topics and domains. The following commonalities were noted:
• European involvement. The European involvement in standardisation is already a reality, but it is insufficient and does not secure having the European perspective properly taken into consideration. Particular mention was made of the need to further reinforce European Commission’s engagement in standardisation and interoperability, as well as of the need for broadening cross-border cooperation in Europe. • Involvement of SMEs. There is a clear insufficient involvement of SMEs in the standardisation process. • Bottom-up versus top-down approach. The interest for adopting a bottom-up approach in standardisation to complement the more conventional top-down approach was highlighted repeatedly. It was suggested considering using specific support instruments (e.g. use cases, reference implementations and communities of practice). • Standards complexity. Standards should be easier to understand and to implement. • Sector’s readiness. Some sectors (e.g. finance, health, automotive components, Intelligent Transportation System), due to their advanced degree of maturity in interoperability, could be in a better position to lead to quicker progress in standards and further interoperability definitions. • Urgency. The attendants agreed on the existence of a strong need for big data standards and interoperability, and on the importance of speeding up progress in this area, which was qualified as too slow for a realistic market uptake.
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• Support instruments. There is an insufficient number and type of instruments aimed at increasing the level and intensity of involvement from European stakeholders. • Balance of technical versus legal approaches for interoperability. Which interoperability aspects should be addressed under a legal/regulatory perspective (regulatory measures versus soft measures) or just as purely technical issues (standards specifications) requires further and deeper analysis and consensus. • Data specificities: Some statements suggested considering various topics for discussion, amongst others: reference architectures, reference implementations, metadata, semantics, portability, cybersecurity, anonymisation, privacy, geo-spatial and mobile data.
3.3. (Big) data interoperability and standards for the European Data Economy: Current initiatives
To complement and expand the preliminary statements suggested by the participants, current initiatives in the domain of (big) data interoperability at national, EU and international levels were presented
The session was supported by the following presentations:
• Emilio Davila-Gonzalez, EC, DG Connect, Innovation Unit • Carola Carstens, EC, DG Connect, Data Value Chain Unit • Craik Gavin, ETSI • Leif Bonorden, FZI Karlsruhe & Cédric Mora, Ministère de l'Économie, de l'Industrie et du Numérique • Laure Le Bars: SAP Research, Smart Data Innovation Lab Deputy Coordinator, BDVA President's Office • Felix Sasaki: DFKI / W3C Fellow and BDVA TF6 SG6 on Big Data Standardisation Vice-Chair • Abdellatif Benjelloun Touimi, Huawei Technologies (UK) / BDVA TF6 SG6 on Big Data Standardisation Chair
The key aspects highlighted by each of the contributions can be summarized as follows:
Emilio Davila-Gonzalez, EC, DG Connect, Innovation Unit The contribution presented the broader European Commission context of standardisation activities in the domain of ICT. It was explained that the Digital Single Market Strategy for Europe COM(2015) 192 final was published on 6th May 2015, and that one of the actions is the adoption of a Priority ICT Standards Plan that identifies and defines key priorities for standardisation. In preparation of the Priority ICT Standards Plan, a public consultation was held. A total of 156 contributors responded to the consultation and different types of possible actions were identified 6
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(including for example landscape and gap analyses or the development of use cases and guidelines).
Carola Carstens, EC, DG Connect, Data Value Chain Unit In follow-up to the preceding presentation, it was specified that the consultation on the Priority ICT Standards Plan amongst others gathered views for the specific domain of 'Data driven services and applications'. It was explained that a preliminary analysis of trends in the consultation replies had been used to define topics for the three parallel discussion groups at the workshop, also considering the input provided by participants prior to the workshop via a questionnaire on (big) data interoperability priorities.
Craik Gavin, ETSI The presentation described the vision from ETSI of standards for Big Data, focusing on details on the so-called “ETSI Toolkit”, composed of interrelated components like: Partnerships, Centre for Testing & Interoperability, Open Coordination platforms, and Membership, with references to the ETSI Strategy 2016-2021.
Leif Bonorden, FZI Karlsruhe & Cédric Mora, Ministère de l'Économie, de l'Industrie et du Numérique The presentation introduced the bi-national cooperation between France and Germany regarding standardisation in the Data Economy. The advances were described from the perspective of each of the involved countries. As far as France is concerned, a Big Data white paper from Afnor Strategic Committee on ICT (2015) is already available, with clear identification of key priorities (related to data access, data transformation, big data use cases). As far as Germany is concerned the presentation referred to the technology programme Smart Data – Innovation from Data of the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy. Composed of 13 projects and accompanying research, the current work is focusing on the assessment on existing standards and gaps in standardisation and in the support for use and development of standards in projects.
Laure Le Bars: SAP Research, Smart Data Innovation Lab Deputy Coordinator, BDVA President's Office The Big Data Value Association (BDVA)1 described its main strategy of the Big Data Value contractual Public-Private Partnership (cPPP), based upon using specific axes like Research and Innovation projects, European Innovation Spaces (i-Spaces) and Lighthouse projects. It was specifically
1 The BDVA represents an industry-led contractual counterpart to the European Commission for the implementation of the Big Data Value contractual Public-Private Partnership.
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Felix Sasaki: DFKI / W3C Fellow and BDVA TF6 SG6 on Big Data Standardisation Vice-Chair The presentation focused on standardisation activities in the realm of BDVA and W3C, highlighting past, present and future activities. The recent activation of a new BDVA taskforce on standardisation was announced (BDVA Task Force 6 subgroup: SG6 on Big Data Standardisation). In addition, feedback from a recent BDVA mini summit was given, stressing the paramount importance for interoperability of standards, “reference implementations” and use cases, and the existence of reoccurring challenges and topics across data types (data quality, access control related to ownership and privacy, heterogeneity of data sources, interfaces, etc.).
Abdellatif Benjelloun Touimi, Huawei Technologies (UK) / BDVA TF6 SG6 on Big Data Standardisation Chair The presentation mainly focused on providing an overview on ISO/IEC JTC 1 WG 9 on Big Data, aimed at exploring a framework for Big Data Standards. The main objective of the working group is to develop foundational standards for Big Data, where current projects are focused on Big Data Overview and Vocabulary and Big Data Reference Architecture. Some documentation is already available, as well as the conclusion from a recent workshop on Big Data Standards, declaring that “Big Data is in the Early Adopters phase and needs to Cross the Chasm”.
3.4. Group discussions: Identifying cross-cutting issues in the standardisation landscape of the European Data Economy
Three parallel discussion groups were organised, in response to the key areas of interest identified out of the responses of the questionnaire that had been circulated prior to the workshop:
• Discussion Group 1: (Big) Data interoperability • Discussion Group 2: Interoperability of big data technologies • Discussion Group 3: Interoperability enablers for data access, sharing and reuse
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4. GROUP DISCUSSIONS SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
Three groups discussed separately in parallel in order to provide a short list of key cross-cutting topics per session that was presented in plenary.
Overall, from the workshop discussion at general level and at group level, several cross-cutting topics and suggested actions emerged, which can be summarized as follows:
Topic 1 Big Data Reference Architecture.
Cross-cutting The need for a Big Data Reference Architecture was issues and identified as a key step stone in standardisation. needs Ongoing work on the topic is driven by the ISO Study Group on Big Data, and was presented at the workshop. A targeted discussion group on this subject stressed the importance of more EU involvement.
Actions Securing that a revision of the NIST Reference Architecture includes a thorough consideration of the European specificities, so that European vertical needs and European policy-related aspects are covered and included in an initiative that has impact at global level.
Who EC, BDVA, Industry, ISO
Topic 2 Further European involvement in standardisation.
Cross-cutting The group participants highlighted the need for further issues and and broader EU Involvement in standardisation at needs international level, including the European Commission.
Actions The Big Data Value Association (BDVA), private partner in the cPPP on Big Data, was identified as a key player in further securing the European participation in Big Data standardisation. Involvement of SMEs in standardisation is highly desirable, but very limited so far. It was suggested that joining of small companies to standardisation processes should be addressed, including at policy level. Much faster standardisation processes are urgently needed, securing an appropriate level of European involvements. Need for instruments to speed up standardisation was identified. Standardisation approach should also be more staged, and more publicly visible for the interested
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stakeholders in order to help inducing further European involvement.
Who EC, BDVA, Industry, SDOs
Topic 3 Use cases and community-driven bottom-up approaches as instruments for data interoperability.
Cross-cutting Many participants stressed the importance of use cases issues and and community-driven bottom-up approaches as needs instruments for data interoperability.
Actions The use of communities of practices was suggested as an operational approach. The attendants confirmed the importance of having reference implementations aiming at facilitating faster Big Data projects development and deployment (for example the potential use of Big Data incubators).
Who EC, BDVA, Industry
Topic 4 Broader cross-border collaboration in standardisation and data interoperability.
Cross-cutting Different initiatives in the context of (Big) Data issues and standardisation and interoperability presented their needs work. This included for example a German-French collaboration on data interoperability at national levels, the European standardisation organisation ETSI, at international level the ISO Study Group on Big Data and W3C, as well as the recently set up taskforce subgroup on standardisation of the Big Data Value Association cPPP.
Actions The emergence of further and broader initiatives on cross-border cooperation should be reinforced. The availability of a platform as an enabling instrument to facilitate further exchanges was identified as required.
Who EC, BDVA, Industry, SDOs
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Topic 5 Further technical progress required.
Cross-cutting Across sectors, policy-related topics like privacy, data issues and protection, data ownership, and data portability needs were considered as very relevant in the context of interoperability. Legal instruments versus soft law or technological measures in response to these aspects need to be further analysed. Some suggestions for technical support were made (like machine-readable consent or the inclusion of Digital Rights Management (DRM), licensing, privacy data in metadata). Cybersecurity was identified as a cross-cutting component of critical importance for an important number of sectors (e.g. health, finance).
Actions Support for further research and the development of industry-lead collaborative standards and interoperability specifications. Give higher priority and provide further research and implementation funding instruments to cybersecurity considerations in sectorial initiatives.
Who EC, BDVA, Industry, SDOs
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5. WORKSHOP CLOSING
The closure of the meeting confirmed the interest and the usefulness of the identified outcomes that relate to cross-cutting issues in the standardisation landscape of the European Data economy, and the willingness and opportunity to strengthen cooperation in the area of big data standardisation and interoperability.
The workshop also helped to take stock of current initiatives in big data interoperability and standards relevant for the European Data Economy.
The workshop organisers welcomed the suggestion from the participants to keep each other informed.
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ANNEX I. RESULTS OF PARALLEL GROUP DISCUSSIONS
I.1. Results of the Group 1 discussion on (Big) Data interoperability
The group discussion helped identifying a number of cross-cutting topics which were accompanied by possible actions:
Topic 1.1 Open Data standardisation
Cross-cutting Open Data, DCAT-AP standard, bridge building across issues and sectors. Data description crucial for discovery, also needs across languages.
Actions Promoting DCAT-AP, reference tool for working with dcat-ap. Provide tooling and standards to make complex, domain specific data more accessible across domains
Who EC, Industry, SDOs
Topic 1.2 Multilingualism
Cross-cutting Unique identification, multilingual aspects. issues and Multilingualism to be addressed as a horizontal issue. needs Linkage between multilingual terminologies and other multilingual assets.
Actions Provide Tooling to do cross-lingual linking
Who EC, Industry
Topic 1.3 Data publishing and metadata
Cross-cutting Publishing data and data and service discovery. issues and Metadata and modularity and harmonization of needs standards, involving big data, language, IoT, combining data across sectors. User authentication and identification across sectors; entitlement. Data governance, including management life cycle & data curation.
Actions Define related metadata. Explore further mechanisms for publishing data and to
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facilitate data and service discovery. Progress in the emergence of data governance initiatives.
Who EC, Industry
Topic 1.4 Semantic interoperability
Cross-cutting Semantic interoperability including metadata, data issues and models, to make data re-use easier, easing data needs governance.
Actions Explore semantic interoperability, particularly in geospatial area
Who EC, Industry
Topic 1.5 Horizontal cross-domain metadata
Cross-cutting Horizontal generic data standards for representing issues and entities across domains, data privacy and IPR. needs
Actions Define cross-domain metadata for entities, privacy and IPR.
Who EC, Industry
Topic 1.6 Data quality impact on interoperability
Cross-cutting e-Science to assure interoperability between research issues and data, see research data alliance. needs Data provenance, quality, privacy to be addressed. Quality to get better results, to separate data results.
Actions Define data quality across domains.
Who EC, Industry
Topic 1.7 Big Data in specific domains: Health
Cross-cutting Handling unstructured, semi and structured data in issues and specific use cases. Big data as evidence for professional needs guidelines, e.g. medicine.
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Actions Support e.g. health-care platforms as complement for clinical trials, solving integrating heterogeneous data challenge.
Who EC, Industry
Topic 1.8 SMEs involvement in Big Data
Cross-cutting Level of involvement of SMEs in Big Data issues and standardisation. needs SMEs in Big Data implementation projects.
Actions Calls for incubator projects to support SMEs, including cross-lingual requirements.
Who EC
Topic 1.9 European participation in standards development
Cross-cutting Have places to discuss across communities (e.g. gs1 and issues and schema.org meetings in W3C). needs
Actions Continue funding on larger scale the activities of cross- sectorial big data discussion fora
Who EC, BDVA, Industry
I.2. Results of the Group 2 discussion on Interoperability of Big Data technologies
The group discussion helped identifying a number of cross-cutting topics which were accompanied by possible actions.
Topic 2.1 Europe engagement in ISO / Participate in the definition by revising NIST Reference Architecture adding the European dimension
Cross-cutting Interoperability. issues and Risk of domination by the US industry (only one point of needs view) Risk of only reflecting proprietary providers (part of the market), thus technology not adopted by industry sectors Risk of proprietary platforms limit scale and competition
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in the market Risk of vendor lock-in.
Actions Participate in the definition by revising NIST Reference Architecture adding the European dimension. Support to the activities of communities of experts. EC support and push for Open Source communities to incorporate the work done in standards to have reference implementations Include by default the use of standards and open source in the EC calls. Develop a reference implementation, APIs, and validation services for the Reference Architecture. Take into account the technology DevOps, e.g. Agile driven enterprise enhanced by a community of practice.
Who EC, Industry
Topic 2.2 Open source (collaborative environments for development) to support for reference implementation of standards
Cross-cutting Reference implementation of standards. issues and needs
Actions EC support and push for Open Source communities to incorporate the work done in standards to have reference implementations Develop a reference implementation, APIs, and validation services for the Reference Architecture Take into account the technology DevOps, e.g. Agile driven enterprise enhanced by a community of practice.
Who EC, Industry
Topic 2.3 Standard development supported by collaborative and development environment (pilot).
Cross-cutting Framework for standards development. issues and needs
Actions Pilot on the use of a collaborative and development environment. Identify the viability of a development framework.
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Explore the implementation of the principles of "standards by design".
Who BDVA, ETSI (ISG, OMG), CEN/CENELEC, OGC
Topic 2.4 Level of European involvement in standards development
Cross-cutting Engagement of European representatives in standards issues and development. needs
Actions Steering organization for standards at European level
Who BDVA, ETSI (ISG, OMG), CEN/CENELEC, OGC
I.3. Results of the Group 3 discussion on Interoperability enablers for data access, sharing and reuse
The group discussion helped identifying a number of cross-cutting topics which were accompanied by possible actions.
Topic 3.1 Privacy
Cross-cutting Dealing with consent. issues and Existence of some localisation-related privacy issues needs associated. Importance of machine-readable consent. • Healthcare patient consent tools. • A way to represent consent, including semantics. • Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH). • FP7 PrimeLife project, on sustainable privacy and identity management to future networks and services. • Who? Data Protection Directive - Art 29 Working Party Art 19 2b Regulation
Actions Explore machine-readable consent approaches and related technologies. Explore privacy certification by a trusted authority. Explore anonymisation and pseudo-anonymisation.
Who EC, BDVA, Industry
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Topic 3.2 Data ownership
Cross-cutting Equipment manufacturers (hardware driven) monopoly issues and of data collection. needs Conflated data (when data has been acquired and aggregated, what are the consequences? who then owns the data?). Sui generis rights on databases. Nobody knows who owns the data (better definitions). What to do? More discussion is still needed.
Actions Explore free selection of data broker. Address data ownership along complex stakeholder’s interaction processes. Facilitate further discussion initiatives on data ownership.
Who EC, BDVA, Industry
Topic 3.3 Data provenance
Cross-cutting Naming and identifying (for privacy) verified identity, issues and open ID, SAML 2.0. needs Integrity checking. Identity verification (eID, eIDAS). eID and eIDAS are only about legal entities. It would also be necessary to generalise this for the identification and authentication of things (IoT related). Need for further support of legal interoperability between identification schemes. • Technology-supported (e.g. as treated in some video recognition technologies). • Covering the “Know your customers” approaches as used in some sectors (banking, healthcare)
Actions Actions: more discussion is needed, particularly to resolve provenance and sharing, which seem related aspects.
Who EC, BDVA, Industry
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Topic 3.4 Data portability
Cross-cutting Open interfaces. issues and Discoverability. needs Legal challenge: how to move data from one cloud to another without losing semantics and information? Legal requirement for interoperation (e.g. between fridge and vacuum cleaner from different vendors). Verification of portability in the Privacy regulation. Data interoperability. Data portability for clouds (legal requirements) even for historic data).
Actions Explore the viability of open interfaces and discoverability. Address the issues related with data portability in clouds. Address the coverage of data portability in the Privacy regulation.
Who EC, BDVA, Industry
Topic 3.5 Platform interoperability
Cross-cutting Access control and licensing. issues and Monetization schemes. needs Liability. Participation of developers in a lot of platforms. Do Developers have to always specify against specific platforms? Can they program once and play against many platforms? API stability. Minimum support time for APIs required. Licensing interoperability and access and usage control. In case of problems, who will be liable? (Service level agreements standards?). Liability risk in case data sharing (exploring) due diligence for data sharing.
Actions Explore possible solutions (no clear solution defined). Address platform data interoperability under different angles (technical, legal, regulatory).
Who EC, BDVA, Industry
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ANNEX II. ATTENDANCE LIST
Name Organisation Bonorden, Leif FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik Brickley, Dan Google Conti, Giuseppe Trilogis Craik, Gavin ETSI Danet, Pierre Hachette Livre De Lathouwer, Bart M. Open Geospatial Consortium Demchenko, Yuri University of Amsterdam Esteban, David Techforce Filip, David Trinity College Dublin Gutschi, Christoph cyberGRID GmbH Gyftokosta, Lamprini Insurance Europe Handl, Ralf SAP AG Knobloch, Christian EGEA, FIGIEFA Kukuk, Thomas GAF AG Le Bars, Laure SAP Lenk, Alexander FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik Messina, Massimo UniCredit S.p.A. Ministère de l’Economie, de l’Industrie Mora, Cédric et du Numérique Muthreich, Karsten H. Nestlé Pagé, Christian CERFACS Papp, Noémie European Banking Foundation Roes, Jasper TNO Romao, Mario Intel Ruiz, Jesus Santander Bank Corporate Technology Sasaki, Felix DFKI Schmidt, Felix L’Oréal Deutschland GmbH Stegwee, Robert Capgemini Consulting Touimi, Abdellatif Benjelloun Huawei Technologies Trieb, Rainer Human Solutions GmbH Walshe, Ray Dublin City University Wang, Zhao Ringier AG Wenning, Rigo W3C Nagy-Rothengass, Márta DG CONNECT, G3 Covassi, Beatrice DG CONNECT, G3 Rizzi, Daniele DG CONNECT, G3
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Name Organisation Rosi, Kimmo DG CONNECT, G3 Bertolo, Stefano DG CONNECT, G3 Barbato, Francesco DG CONNECT, G3 Carstens, Carola DG CONNECT, G3 Dezseri, Kalman DG CONNECT, G2 Dávila-González, Emilio DG CONNECT, F2 Busquets Perez, Luis Carlos DG CONNECT, C1 Cappe, Stefano European Food Safety Authority Friis-Christensen, Anders JRC Sindelar, Martina GROW, I3 Peristeras, Vassilios DIGIT, B6 Hohn, Norbert Publications Office, C1 van Gemert, Willem Publications Office, C4
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