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DataBri-X at the 3rd Data Sharing Festival 2025
On 4-5 February 2025, DataBri-X participated in the 3rd Data Sharing Festival in The Hague, Netherlands. The event brought together experts, industry leaders, and researchers to explore the latest advancements in data sharing and interoperability.
Advancing Data Space Implementations in Telecommunication, Legal, and Energy Sectors workshop
As part of the festival, on 4 February, DataBri-X hosted the workshop titled “Advancing Data Space Implementations in Telecommunication, Legal, and Energy Sectors”. The session featured insightful presentations and contributions from leading experts, including Olga Galanets from the International Data Spaces Association (IDSA) and Christian Dirschl from Wolters Kluwer Deutschland (WKD). The workshop highlighted the latest developments in DataBri-X and provided valuable insights into the implementation of data spaces in key sectors.




Key inputs from DataBri-X:
- Telecom Data Space: Enabling digital transformation while ensuring secure and efficient revenue streams.
- Energy Data Space: Supporting large-scale energy community data markets in the Aspern Smart City testbed.
- Legal Data Space: Developing smart legal services to enhance domain-specific knowledge processing.
Project achievements showcased:
- Flexible data governance model: Ensuring adaptability in complex data lifecycles.
- Innovative data tools: Over 25 tools deployed for data acquisition, validation, metadata enrichment, and secure processing.
- Pilot demonstrations: Showcasing advanced analytics, renewable energy optimization, and trusted legal data spaces.
Semantic Interoperability Workshop
On 5 February, DataBri-X contributed to the “Semantic Interoperability Workshop”, where Olga Galanets (IDSA) shared insights from a series of workshops on semantic interoperability, emphasizing key outcomes for data spaces.
Key takeaways:
- The 2024 Semantic Interoperability Workshop highlighted ontologies, SHACL shapes, and JSON schemas for seamless data exchange, along with the importance of vocabulary hubs and federated data catalogs.
🔗 Read more here. - FAIR Connect supports these efforts by providing a machine-readable platform for FAIR Supporting Resources (FSRs), ensuring findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR) data.
🔗 Learn more here. - IDSA’s position paper calls for common semantic data models and vocabularies as a foundation for data spaces. FAIR Connect facilitates semantic enrichment through nanopublications, aligning with this vision.
🔗 Read the paper here.
The DataBri-X team was pleased to engage with stakeholders, exchange knowledge, and contribute to the ongoing discussion on the future of data spaces. The event reinforced DataBri-X’s commitment to fostering data interoperability, promoting secure and transparent data sharing, and facilitating collaboration across industries.
Stay tuned for more updates on DataBri-X’s ongoing efforts to shape the future of data ecosystems.