What do we refer to with the term data sharing?
About SCDS
Better use and knowledge of data allows us to better understand and overcome global challenges. To leverage this opportunity, data needs to be shared in ways that are secure and that protect the rights and interests of citizens and businesses. Many approaches to data sharing already exist. Specifically, the creation of data spaces as part of the European strategy for data is key to fostering an ecosystem for data sharing, cross-sector and cross-border collaboration, and innovation in Europe.
The “Support Centre for Data Sharing” (SCDS) is an initiative funded by the European Commission to facilitate data sharing and link the expertise of data sharing practitioners and researchers. We collect, develop, and disseminate data sharing practices that imply novel models, tackle legal or technological challenges, and provide practical, legal, and technological support for data transactions.
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Tool: The SCDS API Friendliness Checker
Check your API against essential quality and usability criteria.
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Guidance: Recommended contract terms
Read our overview of common contractual issues and model clauses for licensing data.
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Data sharing practice examples
Discover new insights into experimental or established practices for sharing data.
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News
Mercedes launches a new blockchain-based data sharing platform
A data marketplace is an online ecosystem wherein users can buy and sell data sets across multiple sources and industries. Such an ecosystem has become even more important in an increasingly data...
Join us at the Big Data Conference Europe 2022
Do not forget to catch our session at the Big Data Conference Europe!
As the Support Centre for Data Sharing, we learned from organisations involved in data ecosystems – both public and private –...
International cooperation for data protection
Data security breaches including leaks of business-critical data and sensitive information that arose out of international data exchanges, laid bare the need for having robust data privacy laws as...
How data commons help accelerate COVID-19 and long COVID research
A recent study by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found several regional differences in the pandemic fatalities data and health disparities, once again stressing how important...
Discover the TRUSTS Podcast!
The TRUSTS Podcast is now live! TRUSTS was founded with the objective of creating a secure and reliable data sharing platform in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The...
Meet OCSF, a new open-source project to foster data sharing
Information security and cybersecurity are a problem even large companies cannot handle alone. It takes an entire community working together to tackle all kinds of cybersecurity problems that...
Mercedes launches a new blockchain-based data sharing platform
A data marketplace is an online ecosystem wherein users can buy and sell data sets across multiple sources and industries. Such an ecosystem has become even more important in an increasingly data...
Join us at the Big Data Conference Europe 2022
Do not forget to catch our session at the Big Data Conference Europe!
As the Support Centre for Data Sharing, we learned from organisations involved in data ecosystems – both public and private –...
International cooperation for data protection
Data security breaches including leaks of business-critical data and sensitive information that arose out of international data exchanges, laid bare the need for having robust data privacy laws as...
How data commons help accelerate COVID-19 and long COVID research
A recent study by the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found several regional differences in the pandemic fatalities data and health disparities, once again stressing how important...
Discover the TRUSTS Podcast!
The TRUSTS Podcast is now live! TRUSTS was founded with the objective of creating a secure and reliable data sharing platform in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The...
Meet OCSF, a new open-source project to foster data sharing
Information security and cybersecurity are a problem even large companies cannot handle alone. It takes an entire community working together to tackle all kinds of cybersecurity problems that...
