Trusted data sharing
Share data without giving it away
Data spaces let organisations exchange data across company boundaries while each side keeps control over how it is used. No central platform collects it, and no bilateral contract has to be negotiated first — the rules are set once and enforced automatically.
Sharing without rules is exposure
lost advantageregulatory risk
misusebroken trust
Ecosystems run on data you cannot afford to hand over
Manufacturing
SupplierOEM
Health
ProviderResearch
Energy
ProducerGrid operator
Whonamed Participants only
Whatthe dataset, not the archive
How longrevocable, time-boxed
What forpurpose bound, audited
Two ways to scale data sharing
Setting those four terms works between two organisations. Scaling it across a whole industry is a different problem — and there are only two ways to solve it.Consolidation
value collects in the middle
value collects in the middle
Data space
value stays with the Participants
value stays with the Participants
The Data Space Connector: where policy meets protocol
Change the request and the outcome changes with it — some requests are refused.
Provider connectorFixed by the provider
Usage policy
purposeresearch
retention30 days
processingEU only
1Discover in catalogue
2Purpose matches policy
3Retention matches policy
4Processing region allowed
Consumer connectorYours to change
Request
Purpose
Retention
Processing
Result
Policy travels with the data
Conditions are checked by the Connector before anything moves.
Dataspace Protocol:one protocol · any sector · no bilateral integration
The standards behind this page
Written by IDSA members and bodies, free to use. Members shape the next versions.Reference architecture | version 4
IDS-RAM
The reference model every Connector implementation is built against.
Specification | 2025-1
Dataspace Protocol
How Connectors negotiate a contract and transfer data, one protocol for any sector.
Governance framework
IDSA Rulebook
The roles, rules and trust requirements that constitute a data space.
technology-agnosticnon-commercialopen source · EDC
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