Creating convergence in data spaces
Sylvain Le Bon – Startin’blox
Data space symposium
Darmstadt, 12 March 2024

Funded by the Digital Europe
Programme of the European Union
Under Grant Agreement No 101123423

EUROPEAN MEDIA DATA SPACEFIGHTING MISINFORMATION
AUDIENCE ANALYSISIMPROVING DATA FLOWS IN
PRODUCTION CHAINSSUPPORTING THE ADOPTIONOF AI AND VIRTUAL REALITYTECHNOLOGIESBRINGING DATA PLATFORMS TOGETHER
How do we make a consistent data space out ofthese diverse pilot projects?

THE FUNCTIONS OF A DATA SPACE
Functionality

Description

Standards

Open source
ImplementationExample use cases

Data Discoverability

Find every piece of data that matches
certain criteria, among all data sources

Solid / Type index(Shape index?)

Communica

As a car manufacturer, ﬁnd all the soldcars that contains a part with a given
serial number

Data Integration /Visualizationinteract with the data in a dedicateduser interface

Solid / LDP

Solid CSS

As a researcher, see the ﬁshing zones
where species are on the brink ofextinction

Data Certiﬁcation

bring trust on the truthfulness of some
information

DID / VC

Gaia-XAs a food retailer, prove thetraceability of my productsData Monetization

monetize data through data spaceenabled business interactions

BecknBeckn UI

As a taxi driver, sell a ride to customer
to whom I share my location

Data processing / AI

Federated learning

Need a standard?

Authentication

Technical element

OIDC / VC

SphereonContracting

Technical element

DS Protocol

EDC

As a health professional, makepredictions on my patient data without
sharing that data with an AI company

TEMS USE CASE 1 – POST PRODUCTION
Certiﬁcation
DataAPI-5Unique identifiers distribution
directly to the producer, butsigned and certified by theregistration agency

Movie data:
Movie versions
AssetsIntegration
Connector
ID
mgt
Movie producer
2

Authentication
1

The producer gives adelegation to the lab sothat they can register
assets in their names

Data
API

Asset creation,
3 permitted by the rightaccess permissions

Integration

Contracting
Gaining permissionaccess to the rightdata

4

Connector

ID
mgt

Uniqueidentifiers
retrieval on
behalf of theproducer

Datacatalog

Registry of unique
identification
numbers

Discoverability
6

Find a specificversion of a movie
and its legitimate
copyright owner

Registration agency

Additional assets:
Subtitles
Audio tracks
Specialeffects

Technical laboratory

BroadcasterTEMS USE CASE 2 - ASSET EXCHANGE

Local asset data:
Subtitles
3D modelLocal asset data:
Movie rush
Subtitles
Script catalog

Data
API

Data
API

Local asset data:
Audience report
Ads performance report
Subtitles
Data
API

Asset creator
e.g. Movie studio

Asset creator
e.g. Technicallaboratory

Connector

Discoverability
1

Find specificsubtitles from thedata of the various
asset creators of thedata space

Usability
Federated search

Asset creator
e.g. Movie broadcaster

Asset creation,
3 permitted by the rightaccess permissions

Contracting

2Connector

Gaining permissionaccess to the rightdata

Discoverability
1

Asset consumer
e.g. Movie broadcaster

Buy a data set
containing therelevant subtitles

Data set
marketplacee.g. Dawex

DATA DISCOVERABILITY

Find every piece of data that matches certain criteria,
among all data sources

DATA INTEGRATION

Gain access to the data and interact with it in a dedicateduser interface

DATA CERTIFICATION

Bring trust on the truthfulness of some information

MATCHING THE USE CASES WITH FUNCTIONS
Discoverability

Usability

Certiﬁcation

Transaction

AI

Find every piece ofdata that matches
certain criteria, among
all data sources

Gain access to thedata and interact with
it in a dedicated userinterfacebring trust on thetruthfulness of some
information

monetize data
through data spaceenabled businessinteractions

enable decision
making and content
generation

Unique identiﬁcation✓✓✓

Asset catalog✓✓

Fact checking✓

Audience optimization

✓

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Let’s make all data spaces interoperable!
Sylvain Le Bon – Startin’blox
sylvain@startinblox.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sylvainlebon/

Funded by the Digital Europe
Programme of the European Union
Under Grant Agreement No 101123423