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Updates from the OwnYourData team.
OwnYourData and the Kybernos ESG Data Services GmbH are taking part in ONTOCHAIN, to co-develop a new software ecosystem for trusted, traceable & transparent ontological knowledge
WHAT IS ONTOCHAIN?
ONTOCHAIN is a new software ecosystem for trusted, traceable & transparent ontological knowledge management funded by the European Commission as part of the Next Generation Internet initiative (NGI).
ONTOCHAIN empowers internet innovators to develop Blockchain-based knowledge management solutions that address the challenge of secure and transparent knowledge management, as well as service interoperability on the Internet.
The ONTOCHAIN software ecosystem aims to demonstrate its potential in high impact domains, such as eHealth, eGovernment, eEducation, eCommerce, decentralised infrastructures and similar, in order to achieve trustworthy information exchange and trustworthy and transactional content handling.
Babelfish is taking part in ONTOCHAIN to provide service integration in heterogeneous environments. Our project proposes to describe services on a technical, semantic, and governance layer and will implement a component that uses such descriptions to translate interfaces (APIs), data, and data agreements from a foreign (and maybe proprietary format) to an interoperable format understood by the recipient. A registry maintains a list of all services and thus spans up an interoperable data space.
HOW WILL IT WORK?
ONTOCHAIN Open Call 3 was looking for interoperable and sustainable applications that employ Semantic Web and Blockchain concepts, to enhance data quality aspect, as well as the trustworthiness of data communication and handling processes.
Web3 innovators were invited to propose applications covering real needs of end users in vital sectors of the European economy, built on top of the software services of the ONTOCHAIN ecosystem. Applicants could also submit proposals around missing blocks of the ONTOCHAIN infrastructure.
A total of 105 projects applied for the call and the evaluation process resulted in the selection of 14 proposals addressing the following topics:
ONTOCHAIN INFRASTRUCTURE
ONTOCHAIN APPLICATIONS
ONTOCHAIN will support Babelfish through a 10-month programme and provide funding support up to 119.500 Euros. As part of the action, experts in diverse fields will also provide technology development guidance, working methodology, as well as access to top infrastructure, coaching, visibility and community building support.
FOLLOW OUR JOURNEY THROUGH ONTOCHAIN!
Take a look at the ONTOCHAIN innovators portfolio to see more information about the projects selected. For the Babelfish project find also detailed information at websites from OwnYourData and Kybernos.
To read more about ONTOCHAIN please visit the website: ontochain.ngi.eu.
One of the goals in our current FFG-funded project IDunion was to develop a framework for managing different data models of Covid19 Credentials. In the course of our project we implemented this functionality through the Semantic Overlay Architecture (SOyA 🌱) and this blogposts provides an introduction to this new technology.
There are currently a few initiatives around the world that want to develop digital vaccination records and bring them to market. However, the past has shown that even established solutions such as the international vaccination certificate (“Yellow Card”) cannot be digitized so easily.
This blog post summarizes the key highlights of the Digital Immunization Passport (DIP) project. We implemented and evaluated an end-to-end workflow for handling immunization information in a human-centric way, and we provided the necessary infrastructure for all participating stakeholders to demonstrated the functionality in real-world use cases: Yellow Fever and Tick-borne encephalitis vaccination. The project […]
OwnYourData & Human Colossus Foundation have been selected for the 2nd phase in the Data Portability & Services Incubator (DAPSI) to continue development of the Digital Immunization Passport project. From September 2020 to January 2021 we developed the first version of a Digital Immunization Passport for Yellow Fever and demonstrated the feasability of such a […]
In the DECTS project – funded by NGI TRUST Grant Agreement No. 825618 – OwnYourData and DEC112 implemented a Proof-of-Concept to demonstrate sharing personal data between an emergency caller and a control room.
The DEC112 App for deaf emergency chats allows users to store personal information (profile data) at the phone to be automatically shared with an operator in a control room when an emergency chat is initiated. But storing this profile data has a few disadvantages like inability to migrate this data when switching phones and also security concerns (anyone gaining access to this phone can read and edit the data). It therefore makes sense to also provide an option to store this emergency information securely in the cloud which in turn generates several challenges:
This blog posts describes the implementation of managing profile data in a Personal Data Store addressing the above-mentioned challenges.
Decentralized Identifiers (DID) provide an elegant and self-determined way of managing access to personal data. Using cryptographic methods and blockchain technology a user can generate a DID (i.e., a unique token) that references a DID Document. In this document a service endpoint can be specified that provides a certain type of service. Since only the user is in possession of the cryptographic key to manage the DID Document it can be edited only by this user.
For the given use case of deaf emergency chats the DEC112 app automatically generates a DID at user registration and to reference an account in the OwnYourData Data Vault (source available here: https://github.com/OwnYourData/oyd-pia2). The user has the option to choose between storing the data on the phone or in a Personal Data Store and when choosing Personal Data Store the respective DID is shown on the Profile page.
The OwnYourData Data Vault is a Personal Data Store that recently received the MyData Operator Status and is used as the default cloud storage for personal information associated with an DEC112 user account. Since it stores personal data End-to-End encrypted it was necessary to develop a solution to exchange this encrypted data with a control room. The component that manages data provisioning in case of an emergency chat is called PI2 (Personal Identifiable Information) – source code available here: https://github.com/OwnYourData/service-pi2.
Upon creating an account in the OwnYourData Data Vault two key parts a created using the Shamir Secret Sharing scheme. One key part remains in the Data Vault while the other key part is sent to all participating PI2 services located in the respective control rooms. The profile data can only be decrypted when both key parts come together. Additionally, the Personal Data Stores logs any access to the encrypted profile data to guarantee complete documentation.
The data flow for accessing profile data during an emergency chat is displayed in the following sequence diagram.
The basic steps in providing personal information upon initiating an emergency chat include:
This blog post described the infrastructure to share data in a secure and self-determined way. Users leverage capabilities of DIDs to manage a trusted service endpoint and use Shamir’s Secret Sharing scheme for a purpose-based data provisioning. A working prototype was implemented for the DEC112 project in Austria.