ICTlogy

Abstract:

Data Interoperability is essential to effective usage of data and to building a working data economy for public and private stakeholders across the European Union. Achieving interoperability requires agreement and substantial investments. Over time, there have been a wide range of policy initiatives to improve interoperability, such as sector-specific regulations like INSPIRE –environmental purpose driven – or, more recently, general legal frameworks like the Interoperable Europe Act. However, efforts and benefits were not always balanced optimally, which lead to incomplete, heterogeneous or delayed interoperability.

This report provides a framework to determine what kind of policies and approaches effectively contribute to achieving data interoperability taking into account the lessons learnt from past data sharing initiatives, with a focus on high-value datasets from the geospatial and environmental domain. Furthermore, it includes a set of prospective interoperability approaches that could potentially be applied to Common European Data Spaces, but which are mainly proposed for their consideration in the Green Deal Data Space.