NXDG 2026
3rd NeXt-generation Data Governance Workshop 2026

Table of Contents

• Preface
  Summary: There were 11 papers submitted for peer-review to this workshop. Out of these, 8 papers were accepted for this volume.

Full papers

• From Enterprise Knowledge Graphs to Policy-Compliant Agents: Governing Data, Models, and Autonomous Curation
  Chris Hokamp, Jack Boylan, Jerome Bryssinck, Deniz Kuey, John Murray
• Are the Provided Keywords on Open Data Portals Semantically Complete and Relevant? An Exploratory Study
  Deperias Kerre, Christophe Debruyne
• Governing Multimodal Knowledge Graphs: Current Challenges and Possible Solutions
  Anelia Kurteva, Gabriela Kurteva
• Frame Semantics for EU Reporting Requirements: An Annotated Benchmark, Guidelines, and a Path Towards RRMV Population
  Célestine Juliette Marie Lecat, Kimmy Shah, Monica Palmirani
• TAF: A Semantic Governance Framework for Assessing EU AI Act Article 15 Safeguards in AI-Based Digital Forensic Tool Procurement
  Darren McCabe, David Lewis
• Automated Validation of ODRL Policies for Usage Control and Data Spaces
  Elena Molino-Peña, Wout Slabbinck, José María García, Antonio Ruiz-Cortés, Beatriz Esteves
• Interpreting the FAIR Principles in the Age of Infrastructure and Automation
  Owen P Dwyer, Yama Farooq Mujadidi, James Welch, Jim Davies
• Bringing Semantics into the Common European Agricultural Data Space: (Meta)data Enrichment with Controlled Vocabularies in Pontus-X
  Filipi Miranda Soares, Roberto García, Miguel Pincheira Caro, Raffaele Giaffreda, Clement Jonquet