European Language Data Space Newsletter. Issue 9, January 2024.
Date: 2024-04-18
Institutions: Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology
Subjects: copyright, data processing, data protection, digital single market, multilingualism

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Issue 9 – January 2024

European Language Data Space
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Welcome

Dear Reader,

We'd like to wish you a happy new year and welcome you to the January edi-
tion of the LDS newsletter!

One year after the start of the European Language Data Space (LDS) project,
many things have happened with more to come in 2024. In this issue, we will
recap the activities of the last 12 months and provide a sneak preview on
what's next. Most importantly: if you haven't already done so, you can still reg-
ister for the second LDS Technology Workshop, which will take place on 29
January 2023. The registration will close soon!

Furthermore, we are happy to share the call for open consultations on the
Interim Report of the UN Secretary-General's AI Advisory Body Governing AI
for Humanity, which was published in December 2023. Feedback and sugges-
tions can be submitted until 31 March 2024.

Best regards

The LDS Consortium

News

12 Months European Language Data Space – A Review

The service contract between the European Commission and a consortium of
four partners for the creation and implementation of the Common European
Language Data Space (LDS) came into force on 19 January 2023. One year

 
 
later, it's time for a review and to give an outlook on what is going to happen
in 2024.

The Language Data Space is one of the 14 official EU data spaces currently un-
der development. The project began with a kick-off meeting in early February
2023, in which the consortium worked together with the EC to establish the
main project goals, timelines, and deliverables.

During the first year, the LDS consortium has been strongly involved in collabo-
rating with various working groups of the Data Spaces Support Centre (DSSC)
project as well as working on forming collaborations with other data spaces.
The partnership established with the Alliance for Language Technologies EDIC
(ALT-EDIC) will grant a smooth and natural continuation of the LDS project
once it has come to an end.

Currently, the project coordinators are meeting relevant industry stakeholders,
e.g., from the publishing, language technology or press industry, in order to
constitute the two LDS governance bodies in the coming months: the strategic
body CELT and the LDS User Group CELT+. The statutes of the CELT are already
drafted and will form the operating foundation of this committee. In the mean-
time, the consortium is developing the value proposition of the LDS that will be
verified and evaluated with the members of the User Group CELT+, which will
function as a sounding board once constituted. The feedback that we hope to
collect from the contacted stakeholders will be incorporated into later itera-
tions of the LDS through these governance bodies. In early spring, both bodies
will come together for their inaugural meetings.

The LDS governance scheme, as well as its operational and legal details are al-
ready at an advanced stage. The productive collaboration with DSSC helps to
drive the concept forward and to meet the LDS’s needs, while being as com-
patible with other data space initiatives as possible.

From a technical point of view, the deployment roadmap for the LDS is being
discussed between the consortium and the EC. It will be presented to the pub-
lic in the Launch Conference of LDS, which is planned for spring 2024. The
Events team in the consortium is busy organising the first Technology and
Country workshops, as well as the Launch Conference, where the public will get
informed about the structure and architecture of the LDS and the first project
milestones.

Upcoming meetings and conferences will be announced in this and future
newsletters, on the official LDS website and through our social media channels
– so stay tuned!

Open consultation on the Interim Report of the UN
Secretary-General's AI Advisory Body

The AI Advisory Body of the United Nations encourages individuals, groups
and organisations to provide feedback to its Interim Report with the title

"Governing AI for Humanity", which calls for a closer alignment between inter-
national norms and how AI is developed and rolled out.

The central piece of the report, published in December 2023, is a proposal to
strengthen international governance of AI by carrying out seven critical func-
tions, which will require international cooperation among all actors involved.
These are illustrated in the picture below:

© United Nations, 2023

The report also identifies some guiding principles for the formation of new
global AI governance institutions, which will aim at ensuring an equitable voice
for all countries and defining a broader accountability framework for the AI in-
dustry, at the same time granting the compliance to international laws.

Over the next months, relevant stakeholders – also, e.g., from the LT industry –
are called to submit feedback and suggestions using the dedicated online
form. The feedback may be considered in the development of the final report,
which is planned for summer 2024. The deadline for the online submission
process is 31 March 2024.

See also

www.un.org/en/ai-advisory-body

Contact

aiadvisorybody@un.org

Highlights

ELE and ELG Books: Top download ranks

The two EU projects European Language Grid (ELG) and European Language
Equality (ELE) immediately preceded the European Language Data Space (LDS)
– and LDS will benefit from the results of these projects, both of which docu-
mented their work in one book each, published at Springer Nature in early and
mid 2023. These two volumes are so popular that they now rank among the
top downloaded books at Springer Nature with 57,000 (ELE) and 43,000 down-
loads (ELG). For comparison purposes: average computer science books have
low four figure numbers of downloads. We learned that the ELE book is in the

top 10 of most downloaded titles and the ELG book in the top 20, comparing
about 300 recent titles.

Georg Rehm & Andy Way (editors).
European Language Equality: A Strategic Agenda for
Digital Language Equality. Cognitive Technologies.
Springer, 2023.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17258-7

Georg Rehm (editor).
European Language Grid: A Language Technology
Platform for Multilingual Europe. Cognitive Technologies.
Springer, Cham, Switzerland, 2023.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17258-8

Events

Legislation and regulation for data spaces: an environment to foster
data sharing and AI development

Register for the 2nd LDS Technology Workshop!

This workshop will give a panorama of the
regulations that have been adopted or that
are still in the pipeline for implementation in
the data market and provide keys to under-
standing the interactions between these dif-
ferent legal instruments, their impact on the
landscapes of Data Spaces and Artificial
Intelligence, and how they will influence the
data economy. Reserve your seat now, the
registration will be closed on 25 January at
23:59!

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date

venue

29/01/2024

Microsoft Teams

Organiser

European Language Data Space

Registration

Register via EUSurvey

Contact

events-team@language-data-space.eu

Visit the LDS Website

© European Union, 2024.

A Common European Language Data Space – funded under contract LC-01936389 with the
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