This event report presents the key take-aways and lessons learned during the Beyond Privacy: Learning Data Ethics – European Big Data Community Forum 2019 held in Brussels on November 14, 2019.
GDPR Consent, Transparency and Automated Compliance Checking - The SPECIAL Approach
We are calling for submissions for the workshop ‘GDPR Compliance - Theories, Techniques, Tools' (Madrid, 11 December 2019).
The WU Magazin talked with SPECIAL's Sabrina Kirrane.
Registration is open to attend a joint conference by four EU projects. Brussels, November 14.
On 22nd August 2019, Eva Schlehahn represented the SPECIAL project.
Olha Drozd (WU) represents the SPECIAL project at the 16th International Conference on Trust, Privacy and Security in Digital Business.
The report summarizes the results of the W3C Data Privacy Vocabularies and Controls Working Group (DPVCG)
Martin Kurze presented SPECIAL findings, concepts and results at the ‘Omnichannel Exec Forum’, March 20-21, 2019.
Sabrina Kirrane represented the SPECIAL project at the Open Day for Privacy, Usability, and Transparency (PUT 2019).
Sabrina Kirrane had a talk on "Big Data and Analytics in the Age of the GDPR" at the Data Science Institute - NUI Galway 
on 11th July 2019
Piero Bonatti and Sabrina Kirrane have represented SPECIAL at 2019 International Congress on Big Data (BigData Congress 2019).
Sabrina Kirrane represented SPECIAL at ESWC 2019 Project Networking Session from 2nd - 6th June 2019 at Grand Hotel Bernardin, Portorož, Slovenia
Call for Posters, Demos, and Presentations for our workshop PUT 2019 (July 15, Stockholm).
We were at the workshop of the e-SIDES project.
We are proud to announce that the latest version of the SPECIAL platform is out!
6 days of conference sessions, 3 days of in-depth tutorials and workshops, 50+ case studies, and 200 hours of education for over 1,000 data professionals from around the globe.
The BDVe project published a report on the networking sessions at ICT2018
Join us in Boston, at Enterprise Data World 2019 (March 17-22), the most comprehensive educational data management conference in the world!
SPECIAL will be at ICT 2018 in Vienna (4–6 December 2018).
The EBDVF18 takes place in the Austria Centre Vienna (Austria) on 12-14 November.
On September 29th, 2018, Harald Zwingelberg from SPECIAL partner ULD joined a panel discussion at FIfFKon 2018.
Discover security vulnerabilities, bugs or flaws in the system or its components, and win awesome prizes!
A brief video gives an overview of the SPECIAL architecture.
The workshop will be in San Diego, California, USA, on 26 and 27 September 2018.
SPECIAL takes part in the ECoSP 2018 workshop for EU projects on August 27, 2018.
There will be a session on Semantic Interoperability and Transparency by SPECIAL's Axel Polleres and Ben Whittam Smith at MyData 2018.
Olha Drozd is present at the OPERANDI 2018 workshop (July 23, 2018) with a poster and a short talk on SPECIAL's user interface work.
SPECIAL and the W3C Community Group ‘Data Privacy Vocabularies and Controls’ (DPVCG) will be presented at the ISWC 2018 workshop ‘Semantic Web for social good’,
The workshop resulted, among other things, in the creation of the DPVCG Community Group.
We created a W3C Community Group with the name Data Privacy Vocabularies and Controls (DPVCG). It is open to everybody interested in creating standard vocabularies for privacy-related data.
‘Il Mattino’, a newspaper from Naples (Italy) published an article by SPECIAL's Piero Bonatti. It briefly explains SPECIAL.
The paper Evaluating Query and Storage Strategies for RDF Archives studies how to measure the performance of RDF databases. HDTQ: Managing RDF Datasets in Compressed Space presents a compact representation of RDF as 4-tuples that can be efficiently queried.
The deadline to submit something to our workshop ‘Data Privacy Controls and Vocabularies’ is 28 February 2018.
The latest issue of the Semantic Web Journal includes a special issue on ‘The Semantic Web and Linked Data: Security, Privacy and Policy’.
Our paper ‘Designing a GDPR-compliant and Usable Privacy Dashboard’ will be published, with enhancements, in the IFIP series.
A workshop on Linked Data and Privacy, jointly organized by W3C and SPECIAL, and hosted by the Vienna University of Economics and Business, will take place on 17 & 18 April 2018 (new dates!)
SPECIAL takes part in a workshop by the University of Exeter on November 15.
You can meet SPECIAL at the Big Data Value Forum in Versailles and hear about, among other things, privacy and human factors.
The deliverables of the first nine months of SPECIAL are now available.
The UK is mostly going along with the European Data Protection Reform despite Brexit.
After the paper, the slides (by Sabrina Kirrane) are now also available.
Presenter: Piero Bonatti
Title: A New Semantics for Overriding in Description Logics
Place and date: Melbourne, Australia 19-25 August 2017
Event: IJCAI 2017
Paper available here
Vienna University of Economics and Business is looking for a staff member (a master student or PhD student) to work, among other things, on the SPECIAL project.
The paper Transparent Personal Data Processing: The Road Ahead, by four members of the SPECIAL project, has been accepted for presentation at TELERISE 2017. The paper discusses ideas around the use of a log, or ledger, to keep track of personal data and who it is shared with.
The seminar of June 25–30, 2017 at the famous Schloss Dagstuhl in Germany was titled ‘Federated Semantic Data Management’. SPECIAL's Sabrina Kirrane and Piero Bonatti took part. Their talk, simply called ‘SPECIAL’, presented the aims of the project.
MyData 2017 is a conference that takes place in two cities (Tallinn and Helsinki), on two days (August 30 and September 1), with a boat ride in between.
The requirements and design of SPECIAL's planned user interface for end-users are a topic at the IFIP Summer School 2017.
Sabrina Kirrane will present SPECIAL next week at the ESWC 2017 conference in Portoroz, Slovenia. If you happen to be at the conference, come to Track 3 on Wednesday, 31 May. Sabrina will talk about SPECIAL just after the afternoon break, at 16:00.
Presenter: Sabrina Kirrane
Title: Privacy vs. Innovation
Place and date: Vienna, May 3-4, 2017
Presenter: Piero Andrea Bonatti
Title: La protezione dei dati nell’era del Web Semantico: Realtà e prospettive
Place and date: Milan, April 12, 2017
Event: GI Workshop, Wie sicher ist der neue Datenschutz“GI Fachgruppen SECMGT & PET
Place and date: Frankfurt, March 10, 2017
Presenter: Harald Zwingelberg
Slides available here
Event: First Meeting in the Multi-stakeholder Series “Blockchain: Taxation and Regulatory Challenges and Opportunities”
Place and date: Vienna, March 15-16, 2017
Title: The SPECIAL H2020 project: Applications of Blockchain and non-repudiation protocols for Privacy Policies and GDPR Compliance.
Presenter: Sabrina Kirrane
Event: Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion (IRIS 2017)
Place and date: Salzburg, February 23-25, 2017
Title: Modelling the General Data Protection Regulation
Presenter: Sabrina Kirrane
Event: Internationales Rechtsinformatik Symposion (IRIS 2017)
Place and date: Salzburg, February 23-25, 2017
Title: Compliance mit Metadaten
Presenter: Rigo Wennig
SPECIAL kick off meeting was organized at the European Commission, Luxembourg on 15 -16 January 2017.
The project consortium met over two days in order to ensure a quick start of all project activities and define in details the project first months workplan. Project partners also took part in the Information and Networking Days on Horizon 2020 Big Data Public-Private Partnership topics 2017 organized in Luxembourg followed by the Kick-off meeting.
This project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement