Data Space Offerings
Data products play a central role in how value is created and exchanged within a data space. As described in the DSSC Blueprint 2.0, data products are structured bundles of data and related services designed to be discoverable, reusable, and valuable across multiple use cases.
While the iSHARE Trust Framework does not define data products directly, we encourage each data space initiative to interpret and implement this building block in a way that ensures:
Clear ownership and accountability,
Transparent terms of use and licensing (see iSHARE Licenses),
Quality and interoperability across services.
A well-designed data product typically includes:
A dataset or data service
Descriptive metadata
Purpose and allowed use
Licensing or contractual terms
Optional pricing or service level components
These elements help both data providers and consumers understand what is being offered, under what conditions, and how it can be accessed in a secure and trusted way.
Although the iSHARE Trust Framework doesn’t mandate data product governance, it supports modularity and participant control, allowing each data space to define its own policies, onboarding requirements, and management rules for data products. Doing so helps ensure discoverability, avoids ambiguity, and enables participants to combine offerings across multiple use cases, which is a key factor for scaling and value creation, as also noted in the DSSC Blueprint.
We recommend defining a lightweight internal governance approach to data products to ensure clarity, especially as more organisations join the ecosystem.
The guiding questions can help in the co-creation process and in defining this building block, so please see the next section.
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