The smashHitCore Ontology for GDPR-Compliant Sensor Data Sharing in Smart Cities
- authored by
- Anelia Kurteva, Tek Raj Chhetri, Amar Tauqeer, Rainer Hilscher, Anna Fensel, Kevin Nagorny, Ana Correia, Albert Zilverberg, Stefan Schestakov, Thorben Funke, Elena Demidova
- Abstract
The adoption of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has resulted in a significant shift in how the data of European Union citizens is handled. A variety of data sharing challenges in scenarios such as smart cities have arisen, especially when attempting to semantically represent GDPR legal bases, such as consent, contracts and the data types and specific sources related to them. Most of the existing ontologies that model GDPR focus mainly on consent. In order to represent other GDPR bases, such as contracts, multiple ontologies need to be simultaneously reused and combined, which can result in inconsistent and conflicting knowledge representation. To address this challenge, we present the smashHitCore ontology. smashHitCore provides a unified and coherent model for both consent and contracts, as well as the sensor data and data processing associated with them. The ontology was developed in response to real-world sensor data sharing use cases in the insurance and smart city domains. The ontology has been successfully utilised to enable GDPR-complaint data sharing in a connected car for insurance use cases and in a city feedback system as part of a smart city use case.
- Organisation(s)
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L3S Research Centre
- External Organisation(s)
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University of Innsbruck
Delft University of Technology
Wageningen University and Research
Research Triangle Institute International
Institut für Angewandte Systemtechnik Bremen GmbH (ATB)
University of Bonn
- Type
- Article
- Journal
- Sensors
- Volume
- 23
- ISSN
- 1424-8220
- Publication date
- 06.07.2023
- Publication status
- Published
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Analytical Chemistry, Information Systems, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biochemistry, Instrumentation, Electrical and Electronic Engineering
- Sustainable Development Goals
- SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
- Electronic version(s)
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https://doi.org/10.3390/s23136188 (Access:
Open)
