WP4 Finalizing the model. D4.4 Report on technological requirements and barriers

This deliverable describes potential barriers for the development of self-sustaining data markets in Europe. In this sense, self-sustaining means that those data markets are supposed to sustain without the need for a central external driver or the need for manual intervention on a long-term base once they are fully established. Once a data market is self-sustaining, it can be seen as a stable market, which involves most or all actors which have been identified by the EuDEco project consortium and which are listed in the model, including all roles of its agents: data holders, data users, data distributors and solution providers.This establishment may, however, be hindered by different barriers - whether those are legal, socio economic or technological. This deliverables identifies those barriers. They have been identified by the EuDEco consortium within its communication with the stakeholders and are mainly stemming from two sources. Firstly, the feedback and discussions of the workshops that the consortium has organized in its first two and a half project years have been taken into account as a major source. This includes written feedback, discussions and comments. Secondly, feedback from the in-depth interviews with stakeholders has been considered especially from the recommender interviews. Section 3 of this document identifies a series of technological barriers that could hinder the establishment and uptake of self-sustaining data markets. Based on this, section 4 provides an overview of requirements that are necessary to remove the barriers identified in section 3. For each of those requirements a set of concrete approaches is given on how to realize them. Those approaches are meant as direct and actionable suggestions. The results of this deliverable and especially the approaches and requirements of section 4 will later serve as a basis for recommendations in work package 5.