An Empirical Examination of the Technical Aspects of Data Sovereignty

Julia Pampus, Maritta Heisel

2024

Abstract

Self-determination and autonomy in data sharing, in recent research also referred to as data sovereignty, arouses increasing interest in the context of industrial ecosystems. Its practical implementation considers organisational, regulatory, legal, and particularly technical aspects. Previous work has not yet focused on the structured analysis of technical characteristics of systems used in data sharing concerning data sovereignty. In this paper, we therefore elicit what system requirements help the data sovereignty of a data sharing participant, starting from privacy protection goals, FAIR principles, and ISO/IEC 25010:2011. To address this, we conducted a qualitative study in the form of an online questionnaire. We asked 18 domain experts to evaluate selected system criteria for their impact and relevance to the implementation of data sovereignty. Our work has resulted in a set of 22 functional requirements that can be used for designing data sharing systems. Subsequently, we discuss our findings, compare them with related work, and address further research.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Pampus J. and Heisel M. (2024). An Empirical Examination of the Technical Aspects of Data Sovereignty. In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT; ISBN 978-989-758-706-1, SciTePress, pages 112-122. DOI: 10.5220/0012760600003753

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icsoft24,
author={Julia Pampus and Maritta Heisel},
title={An Empirical Examination of the Technical Aspects of Data Sovereignty},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT},
year={2024},
pages={112-122},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0012760600003753},
isbn={978-989-758-706-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Software Technologies - Volume 1: ICSOFT
TI - An Empirical Examination of the Technical Aspects of Data Sovereignty
SN - 978-989-758-706-1
AU - Pampus J.
AU - Heisel M.
PY - 2024
SP - 112
EP - 122
DO - 10.5220/0012760600003753
PB - SciTePress