The need for data sharing agreements in data management

Konstantinidis, George (2019) The need for data sharing agreements in data management. Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Semantic Web Meets Health Data Management (SWH 2019) co-located with the 18th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2019), , Auckland, New Zealand. 26 - 30 Oct 2019. pp. 5-8 .

Abstract

There is an evidently growing legal, cultural and technological need for tools and models that allow users to express their own intentions and consent over the usage of their personal data and information. Service providers and institutions that manage personal data rely on specifying monolithic “Terms and Conditions” written in natural language and enforced in an ad-hoc manner, by presenting users with topdown, coarse-grained, opt-in/out options. We advocate the need for users to describe their personal contract of data usage in a formal, machineprocessable language. Semantic Web technologies can have a central role in this approach by providing the formal tools and languages required. Expressing data sharing intentions, consent and data usage agreements in a technical way enables the development of algorithms that automatically respect a user’s policy. This helps organisations increase technological capabilities, abide by legal requirements, and avoid ad-hoc processes, thus saving engineering resources.

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