International Data Spaces Association

International Data Spaces Association (IDSA)
Company typeNonprofit organisation
IndustryDataspaces
Founded2017
HeadquartersDortmund,
Germany
Area served
Worldwide
Websitehttp://internationaldataspaces.org

The International Data Spaces Association (IDSA) is a not-for-profit association of more than 140 organisations, incorporated under German law. It creates standards for sharing data in data spaces, that allow participants to have full control over their data.[1]

IDSA was founded in 2017 to create data sharing standards for automated negotiation, exchange, and compliance enforcement. It also defines security standards, control and enforcement mechanisms for data usage, and rules for data traceability.[2] IDSA specifies the legal, operational, functional, and technical agreements between organisations that share data within a data space.[3] It is one of the main initiatives defining the technical specifications for data spaces in the European Union.[4] IDSA releases and maintains a reference architecture model for data spaces.[5] It also certifies the essential software components used in data spaces.[6]

  1. ^ Curry, Edward; Tuikka, Tuomo (2022). "An Organizational Maturity Model forData Spaces: A Data Sharing Wheel Approach". Data Spaces. Springer. pp. 21–42. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-98636-0_2. ISBN 978-3-030-98635-3.
  2. ^ George Lawton (25 May 2022). "How data spaces could scale creating digital twins". VentureBeat. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
  3. ^ Carmelo Cennamo; Feng Zhu; Giovanni B. Dagnino, eds. (2023). Research Handbook on Digital Strategy. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 298. ISBN 9781800378902.
  4. ^ Firdausy, D.R.; Silva, P.D.A.; Van Sinderen, M.; Iacob, M.E. (2022). "Towards a Reference Enterprise Architecture to enforce Digital Sovereignty in International Data Spaces" (PDF). 2022 IEEE 24th Conference on Business Informatics (CBI). Vol. 1. IEEE. pp. 117–125. doi:10.1109/CBI54897.2022.00020. ISBN 978-1-6654-6016-3. S2CID 253556464.
  5. ^ Asswad, Jad; Marx Gómez, Jorge (2021). "Data Ownership: A Survey". Information. 12 (11). MDPI: 465. doi:10.3390/info12110465.
  6. ^ Braud, A.; Fromentoux, G.; Radier, B.; Le Grand, O. (2021). "The road to European digital sovereignty with Gaia-X and IDSA". IEEE Network. 35 (2). IEEE: 4–5. doi:10.1109/MNET.2021.9387709. S2CID 233195437.