> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://frameworks.greendealdata.eu/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://frameworks.greendealdata.eu/04-glossary.md).
# Glossary
The glossary provided by the SAGE consortium forms the basis of the glossary of GDDS. The glossary is aligned with the relevant EU normative frameworks (e.g. GDPR, DGA, Data Act), considering the changes proposed in the Digital Omnibus and the DSSC Blueprint v3.0.
| Word | Definition | References (incl. normative references) and notes |
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| Access | Data use, in accordance with specific technical, legal or organisational requirements, without necessarily implying the transmission or downloading of data. | Data Governance Act (DGA)
With the Digital Omnibus Regulation1àData Act
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| Value-added services | Services (such as aggregation, enrichment, or transformation) that go beyond pure data intermediation by enhancing, processing, or analysing data for the benefit of a specific user, while preserving the provider’s neutral and independent intermediation role. | Inferred from Digital Omnibus Regulation |
| Aggregation | Any process of collecting data from multiple sources and combining it into a unified dataset for further analysis. | |
| Anonymisation | The process of rendering personal data anonymous data. | Negative definition of personal data under General Data Protection Regulation, Free Flow of non-personal data. Waiting for EDPB |
| Anonymised data | Data that has undergone an anonymisation process and is therefore rendered anonymous in such a manner that the data subject is not or no longer identifiable. | Recital 26 General Data Protection Regulation |
| Anonymous data | Data which does not relate directly or indirectly to a data subject. | Part of Recital 26 General Data Protection Regulation |
| Agreement | The written Agreement between Parties in respect of the provision of services, any amendment thereof or supplement thereto, as well as all acts related to the performance of the Agreement(s), including, in particular, its Appendixes | Commission’s Recommendation on SCCs |
| Appendix | An appendix, schedule or exhibit explicitly referenced in the Agreement | Commission’s Recommendation on SCCs |
| Assurance | An artefact that helps parties make trust decisions, such as certificates, commitments, contracts, warranties, etc. | DSSC |
| Authentication | An electronic process that enables the electronic identification of a natural or legal person, or the origin and integrity of data in electronic form to be confirmed. | eIDAS Regulation |
| Certain categories of protected data | Data and documents held by public sector bodies which are protected on the grounds of (a) commercial confidentiality, including business, professional and company secrets; (b) statistical confidentiality; (c) the protection of intellectual property rights of third parties; or (d) the protection of personal data, insofar as such data fall outside the scope of Section 2 of Chapter VIIc. | Digital Omnibus Regulation (in the Data Act) |
| Connection-providing intermediary | A data space intermediary that connects one or more participants to the data space, enabling them to establish relationships and execute data transactions with other participants. | DSSC |
| Consent | Any freely given specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her. | General Data Protection Regulation |
| Customer (of data processing services) | A natural or legal person that has entered into a contractual relationship with a Provider of Data Processing Services with the objective of using one or more Data Processing Services | Commission’s Recommendation on SCCs (reference to the Data Act) |
| Data | Any digital representation of acts, facts or information and any compilation of such acts, facts or information, including in the form of sound, visual or audiovisual recording, that can be either personal or non-personal. | Data Governance Act, Data Act, Commission’s Recommendation on SCCs, but modified by adding “personal” and “non-personal” for further clarity |
| Dataset | A resource, comprising a collection of data published or curated by a single party and available for access or download in one or more representations | DSSC |
| Data access policy | A data policy defined by the data rights holder for granting access to their shared data in a data space. | DSSC |
| Data altruism | The voluntary sharing of data on the basis of the consent of data subjects to process personal data pertaining to them, or permissions of data holders to allow the use of their non-personal data without seeking or receiving a reward that goes beyond compensation related to the costs\* that they incur where they make their data available for objectives of general interest as provided for in national law, where applicable, such as healthcare, combating climate change, improving mobility, facilitating the development, production and dissemination of official statistics, improving the provision of public services, public policy making or scientific research purposes in the general interest. | Data Governance Act
With the Digital Omnibus Regulationà Data Act
\*Note: In the contracts, whenever we need to specify that one party cannot ask for a fee other than the actual costs occurred, we will need to use "Compensation" (for coherence) and "Reward" for the contrary.
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| Data controller | The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law. | General Data Protection Regulation |
| Data egress charges | Data transfer fees charged to Customers for extracting their Data through the network from the ICT infrastructure of a Provider of Data Processing services to the system of a different provider or to on-premises ICT infrastructure | Commission’s Recommendation on SCCs (reference to the Data Act) |
| Data governance | The collection of practices, processes, policies, regulations, and standards established by multiple actors or organizations to use data. | Unlocking Green Deal Data Space |
| Data holder | A natural or legal person that has the right or obligation, in accordance with this Regulation, applicable Union law or national legislation adopted in accordance with Union law, to use or make available data, including, where contractually agreed, product data or related service data, which it has retrieved or generated during the provision of a related service. | Digital Omnibus Regulation (in the Data Act)2 |
| Data intermediation service | A service which aims to establish relationships of an economic character for the purposes of data sharing between an undetermined number of data subjects or data holders and data users, through technical, legal or other means, including for the purpose of exercising the rights of data subjects in relation to personal data, and which :
(1) do not have as their main purpose the intermediation of copyright-protected content;
(2) are not jointly procured by several legal persons for exclusive use among them.
| Digital Omnibus Regulation (in the Data Act)3 |
| Data intermediation service provider | A legal entity providing data intermediation services and that have submitted a notification to the national competent authority for data intermediation services. | Inferred from Art. 2(11) DGA |
| Data policy | A set of rules, working instructions, preferences and other guidance to ensure that data is obtained, stored, retrieved, and manipulated consistently with the standards set by the governance framework and/or data rights holders. | DSSC |
| Data policy
enforcement
| A set of measures and mechanisms to monitor, control and compel obedience to established data policies. | DSSC |
| Data policy negotiation | The process of reaching agreements on data policies between a data rights holder, a data provider and a data recipient. The negotiation can be fully machine-processable and immediate or involve human activities as part of the workflow. | DSSC |
| Data processor | A natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller | GDPR |
| Data processing service | A digital service that is provided to a Customer and that enables ubiquitous and on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable, scalable and elastic computing resources of a centralised, distributed or highly distributed nature that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. For purposes of this Agreement, the said Data Processing Services regard those provided or to be provided by the Provider to the Customer as agreed under the Agreement; | Commission’s Recommendation on SCCs (reference to the Data Act) |
| Data product | A set of resources that complies with a data product specification and for which a data product owner has created and published a data product offering. | DSSC |
| Data product contract | A document that has been legally committed to by the data product contract parties, and that specifies the rights and duties of the parties concerning the provisioning and consumption of a data product. | DSSC |
| Data product contract template | A predefined template document that is part of a data product offering and that specifies a basic set of rights and duties for the respective parties that will perform the roles of the data product provider and data product customer,
and serves as the basis of the negotiation phase of a data transaction.
| DSSC |
| Data product customer | A party that has the right to obtain a data product, as well as other rights and obligations, as stated in a particular data product contract. | DSSC |
| Data product customer agent | An actor that operates on behalf of a data product customer, and that has been provided the means, policies, etc. for doing the operational work associated with the obtaining and using of a data product in accordance with
the corresponding data product contract.
| DSSC |
| Data product offering | A set of texts, created and maintained by a data product owner for one of its data products, that is constructed such that potential data product customers have all the information they need to (a) determine if they should accept the data product owner's offer, and (b) make all practical arrangements for consuming that data product. | DSSC |
| Data product owner | A party that curates a data product, creates and maintains a data product offering for the data product, and a metadata record for describing the data product in a catalogue. | DSSC |
| Data product provider | A party that has the obligation to provide a data product, as well as other rights and obligations, as stated in a particular data product contract. | DSSC |
| Data product provider agent | An actor that operates on behalf of a data product provider, and that has been provided the means, policies, etc. for doing the operational work associated with the provisioning of a data product in accordance with the corresponding data product contract. | DSSC |
| Data product specification | A specification that every instance of a particular class of data products can, and are expected to comply with. | DSSC |
| Data provider | A natural or legal person who discloses or grants access to data for sharing or re-use within the context of data space. | |
| Data recipient | A natural or legal person to whom data are disclosed or who has access to the data within the context of the data space. | GDPR (with modifications). |
| Data rights holder | A party that has legal rights and/or obligations to use, grant access to or share certain personal or non-personal data resources. Data rights holders may transfer such rights to others. | DSSC |
| Data service | A resource, comprising a collection of operations that provides access to one or more datasets or data processing functions. | DSSC |
| Data sharing | The provision of data by a data subject or a data holder to a data user for the purpose of the joint or individual use of such data, based on voluntary agreements or Union or national law, directly or through a data intermediation service provider, for example under open or commercial licences subject to a fee or free of charge. | Data Governance Act |
| Data Space | A distributed system defined by a governance framework that enables secure and trustworthy data transactions between participants while supporting trust and data sovereignty. A data space is implemented by one or more infrastructures and enables one or more use cases. | DSSC |
| Data space building block | A description of related functionalities and/or capabilities that can be realised and combined with other building blocks to achieve the overall functionality of a data space. | DSSC |
| Data space component | A specification for a software or other artefact that realises a set of functionalities described by one or more building blocks. | DSSC
Explanatory text: For technical components, that would typically be software, but for business components, this could consist of processes, templates or other artefacts.
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| Data space component architecture | An overview of all the data space components and their interactions, providing a high-level structure of how these components are organised and interact within data spaces. | DSSC |
| Data space connector | A technical component that is run by (or on behalf of) a participant and that provides connectivity with similar components run by (or on behalf of) other participants. | DSSC
Explanatory text: A connector can provide more functionality than is strictly related to connectivity. The connector can offer technical modules that implement data interoperability functions, authentication interfacing with trust services and authorization, data product self-description, contract negotiation, etc.
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| Data space development processes | A set of essential processes the stakeholders of a data space initiative conduct to establish and continuously develop a data space throughout its development cycle. | DSSC |
| Data space enabling service | A service that implements a data space functionality that enables data transactions for the transaction participants and/or operational processes for the governance authority. | DSSC |
| Data space functionality | A specified set of tasks that are critical for operating a data space and that can be associated with one or more data space roles. | DSSC |
| Data space governance authority | The body of a particular data space, consisting of participants that is committed to the governance framework for the data space, and is responsible for developing, maintaining, operating and enforcing the governance framework. | DSSC |
| Data space governance framework | The structured set of principles, processes, and practices that guide and regulate the governance, management and operations within a data space to ensure effective and responsible leadership, control, and oversight. It defines the functionalities the data space provides and the associated data space roles, including the data space governance authority and participants. | DSSC |
| Data space infrastructure | A technical, legal, procedural and organisational set of components and services that together enable data transactions to be performed in the context of one or more data spaces. | DSSC |
| Data space initiative | A collaborative project of a consortium or network of committed partners to initiate, develop and maintain a data space. | DSSC |
| Data space intermediary | A data space participant that provides one or more enabling services while not directly participating in the data transactions. | DSSC |
| Data space interoperability | The ability of participants to seamlessly exchange and use data within a data space or between two or more data spaces. Interoperability generally refers to the ability of different systems to work in conjunction with each other and for devices, applications or products to connect and communicate in a coordinated way without effort from the users of the systems. On a high-level, there are four layers of interoperability: legal, organisational, semantic and technical (see the European Interoperability Framework \[EIF]).
- Legal interoperability: Ensuring that organisations operating under different legal frameworks, policies and strategies are able to work together.
- Organisational interoperability: The alignment of processes, communications flows and policies that allow different organisations to use the exchanged data meaningfully in their processes to reach commonly agreed and mutually beneficial goals.
- Semantic interoperability: The ability of different systems to have a common understanding of the data being exchanged.
- Technical interoperability: The ability of different systems to communicate and exchange data. Data space interoperability refers to interoperability within, but also between data spaces.
- Within data space interoperability addresses the governance, business and technical frameworks (including the data space protocol and the data models) for individual data space instances.
- Between data spaces interoperability addresses the governance, business and technical frameworks to interconnect multiple data space instances seamlessly.
| DSSC |
| Data space maturity model | Set of indicators and a self-assessment tool allowing data space initiatives to understand their stage in the development cycle, their performance indicators and their technical, functional, operational, business and legal capabilities in absolute terms and in relation to peers. | DSSC |
| Data space operational processes | A set of essential processes a potential or actual data space participant goes through when engaging with a functioning data space that is in the operational stage or scaling stage. The operational processes include attracting and onboarding participants, publishing and matching use cases, data products and data requests and eventually data transactions. | DSSC |
| Data space participant | A party committed to the governance framework of a particular data space and having a set of rights and obligations stemming from this framework. | DSSC |
| Data space participant registry | A federated registry of participants of a particular data space, managed by the data space governance authority. | DSSC |
| Data space rulebook | The documentation of the data space governance framework for operational use. | DSSC |
| Data space toolbox | A catalogue of data space component implementations curated by the Data Space Support Centre. | DSSC |
| Data space pilot | A planned and resourced implementation of one or more use cases within the context of a data space initiative. A data space pilot aims to validate the approach for a full data space deployment and showcase the benefits of participating in the data space. | DSSC |
| Data space role | A distinct and logically consistent set of rights and duties (responsibilities) within a data space, that are required to perform specific tasks related to a data space functionality, and that are designed to be performed by one or more participants. | DSSC |
| Data space use case | A specific setting in which two or more participants use a data space to create value (business, societal or environmental) from data sharing. | DSSC |
| Data space value | The cumulative value generated from all the data transactions and use cases within a data space as data space participants collaboratively use it. | DSSC |
| Data spaces blueprint | A consistent, coherent and comprehensive set of guidelines to support the implementation, deployment and maintenance of data spaces.
Explanatory text:
The blueprint contains the conceptual model of data space, data space building blocks, and recommended selection of standards, specifications and reference implementations identified in the data spaces technology landscape.
| DSSC |
| Data spaces information model | A classification scheme used to describe, analyse and organise a data space initiative according to a defined set of questions. | DSSC |
| Data Spaces Support Centre | The virtual organisation and EU-funded project which supports the deployment of common European data spaces and promotes the reuse of data across sectors. | DSSC |
| Data spaces radar | A publicly accessible tool to provide an overview of the data space initiatives, their sectors, locations and approximate development stages. | DSSC |
| Data subject | A natural person who can be identified, directly or indirectly, from personal data, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. | General Data Protection Regulation |
| Data transaction | A structured interaction between data space participants for the purpose of providing and obtaining/using a data product. An end-to-end data transaction consists of various phases, such as contract negotiation, execution, usage, etc. | DSSC |
| Data usage consent | A consent expressed within a data usage contract where the data rights holder is a natural person, and this consent constitutes the legal basis for processing data under the General Data Protection Regulation. | DSSC |
| Data usage contract | An agreement between a data rights holder and/or data provider and a data recipient specifying the terms and conditions that apply to the use of the data by the data recipient. The data usage contract may refer to specific data policies. | DSSC |
| Data usage policy | A data policy defined by the data rights holder for the usage of their data shared in a data space. | DSSC |
| Data user | A natural or legal person who has lawful access to certain personal or non-personal data and has the right, including under Regulation (EU) 2016/679 in the case of personal data, to use that data for commercial or non-commercial purposes. | Data Governance Act |
| Destination provider | The destination provider of Data Processing Services to which the Customer of a Data Processing Services changes for the purpose of using another Data Processing Service of the same Service type, or other Services | Commission’s Recommendation on SCC (reference to Data Act)
See also ‘Source Provider’
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| Development cycle | The sequence of stages that a data space initiative passes through during its progress and growth. In each stage, the initiative has different needs and challenges, and when progressing through the stages, it evolves regarding knowledge, skills and capabilities. | DSSC |
| Digital assets | Elements in digital form, including applications, for which the Customer has the right of use, independently from the contractual relationship with the Data Processing Service it intends to switch from | Commission’s Recommendation on SCC (reference to Data Act) |
| Enrichment | Any process of enhancing existing data by adding relevant details, context, or value from additional sources. | |
| Exploratory stage | The stage in the development cycle in which a data space initiative starts. Typically, in this stage, a group of people or organisations starts to explore the potential and viability of a data space. The exploratory activities may include, among others, identifying and attracting interested stakeholders, collecting requirements, discussing use cases or reviewing existing conventions or standards. | DSSC |
| Exportable data | The input and output Data, including metadata, directly or indirectly generated, or cogenerated, by the Customer’s use of the Data Processing Service, excluding any assets or Data protected by intellectual property rights, or constituting a trade secret, of Providers of Data Processing Services or third parties | Commission’s Recommendation on SCC (reference to Data Act) |
| FAIR data | Data which meet the principles of findability, accessibility, interoperability, and reusability. | |
| High Value Dataset | Data and documents the re-use of which is associated with important benefits for society, the environment and the economy, in particular because of their suitability for the creation of value-added services, applications and new, high-quality and decent jobs, and because of the number of potential beneficiaries of the value-added services and applications based on those data and documents. | Digital Omnibus Regulation (new article in the Data Act)4 |
| Identity broker | A Data Space participant whose aim is to guarantee the connection of the Data Space participant | Inferred from Art. 3(16) eIDAS Regulation |
| Identity provider | A Data Space participant whose aim is to create, manage, and verify digital identities to enable secure access to applications, websites, or systems. | |
| Implementation stage | The stage in the development cycle that starts when a data space initiative has a sufficiently detailed project plan, milestones and resources (funding and other) for developing its governance framework and infrastructure in the context of a data space pilot. It is typical for this stage that the parties involved in the pilot and the value created for each are also clearly identified. | DSSC |
| Implementation of a data space component | The result of translating/converting a data space component into a functional and usable artefact, such as executable code or other tool. | DSSC |
| Incident | A physical, technical, or organisational security breach, incident or similar event that may have a significant impact in relation to security and business continuity as it has caused or is capable of causing severe disruption of any applicable IT systems and operations used between the Provider and the Customer during the switching process, or with respect to the Customer’s use of the Services, the Customer’s Exportable Data and Digital Assets. See SCCs Security and business continuity | Commission’s Recommendation on SCC |
| Interoperability | The ability of Data Space participants to exchange and use data within the Data Space or between other data spaces. It can be guaranteed by different systems that are able to work in conjunction under a legal, organisational, semantic and technical perspective | Inferred from Data Act
See also: Commission’s Recommendation on SCC
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| Key Performance Indicator (KPI) | Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are the critical (key) quantifiable indicators of progress toward an intended result. KPIs provide a focus for strategic and operational improvement, create an analytical basis for decision making and help focus attention on what matters most. | GREAT Glossary |
| Licence | The legal permission that regulates specific conditions under which data should be released. It also provides allowed and prohibited further activities on that data by the data recipient | |
| Marketplace | A data space intermediary that enables functions such as catalogues and online transaction capabilities (e.g. ordering, billing, payment) for trading data products. | DSSC |
| Metadata | A structured description of the contents or the use of data facilitating the discovery or use of that data | Commission’s Recommendation on SCC (reference to Data Act) |
| Mixed dataset | A dataset that includes both personal and non-personal data, which are inextricably linked | Commission’s Recommendation on SCC (reference to Free flow of non-personal data Regulation) |
| Non-personal data | Data other than personal data | Commission’s Recommendation on SCC (reference to Data Act) |
| On-premises ICT infrastructure | ICT infrastructure and computing resources owned, rented or leased by the customer, located in the data centre of the customer itself and operated by the customer or by a third-party | Commission’s Recommendation on SCC (reference to Data Act) |
| Open data | Data in an open format that can be freely used, re-used and shared by anyone for any purpose. | Recital 16 Open Data Directive |
| Open format | A file format that is platform-independent and made available to the public without any restriction that impedes the re-use of documents. | ODD |
| Operational stage | The stage in the development cycle that starts when a data space initiative has a tested implementation of infrastructure(s) and governance framework, and the first use case becomes operational (data flowing between data providers and data recipients and use case providing the intended value). | DSSC |
| Other services | All professional Services of whatever nature provided by the Provider to the Customer under the Agreement as defined therein, that are not Data Processing Services | Commission’s Recommendation on SCC |
| Party | Either the Customer or the Provider | Commission’s Recommendation on SCC |
| Parties | Both the Customer and the Provider | Commission’s Recommendation on SCC |
| Participant registry | Registry which lists the Data Space participants, collecting pieces of information regarding their roles and responsibilities. | |
| Permission | Giving data users the right to the processing of non-personal data | Data Governance Act
With Digital Omnibus RegulationàData Act
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| Personal data | Information relating to a natural person is not necessarily personal data for every other person or entity, merely because another entity can identify that natural person. Information shall not be personal for a given entity where that entity cannot identify the natural person to whom the information relates, taking into account the means reasonably likely to be used by that entity. Such information does not become personal for that entity merely because a potential subsequent recipient has means reasonably likely to be used to identify the natural person to whom the information relates. | Digital Omnibus Regulation (in the GDPR)5 |
| Personal data intermediary | A data space intermediary that facilitates the management of personal data in data spaces. | DSSC |
| Plan | The switching and exit plan referred to in the SCC Switching and Exit Option A, as agreed between the Parties under the Agreement | Commission’s Recommendation on SCC |
| Policy definition language | A machine-processable mechanism for representing statements about the data policies, e.g., Open Digital Rights Language (ODRL) | DSSC |
| Preparatory stage | The stage in the development cycle that starts when a data space initiative has a critical mass of committed stakeholders and there is an agreement to move forward with the initiative and proceed towards creating a data space. It is typical for this stage that such partners jointly develop use cases and prepare to implement the data space. | DSSC |
| Processing = use | Any operation or set of operations which is performed on data or on sets of data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination, or other means of making them available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction. | Commission’s Recommendation on SCC (reference to Data Act) |
| Protected data | Data that are protected on the ground of: (a) commercial confidentiality, including business, professional and company secrets; (b) statistical confidentiality; (c) the protection of intellectual property rights of third parties; or (d) the protection of personal data, in so far as these data are not open data. | Inferred from Data Governance Act |
| Provider of Data Processing Services (Provider) | A natural or legal person that has entered into a contractual relationship with a Customer with the objective of providing one or more Data Processing Services | Commission’s Recommendation on SCC |
| Pseudonymised data | Personal data that can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person. | Inferred from General Data Protection Regulation |
| Re-use | The use by the data recipient of data received by the data provider for purposes other than the initial purpose for which the data were produced or collected. | Inspired by Data Governance Act (with the Digital Omnibus RegulationàData Act) |
| Re-user | A natural or legal person who was granted the right to re-use data or documents held by a public sector body or a public undertaking under Chapter VIIc6 or to research data or certain categories of protected data; | Digital Omnibus Regulation (in the Data Act) |
| Research data | Data, other than scientific publications, which are collected or produced in the course of scientific research activities and are used as evidence in the research process, or are commonly accepted in the research community as necessary to validate research findings and results; | Digital Omnibus Regulation (in the Data Act)7
Open Data Directive
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| Resource | An entity that is curated by a single party (in the role of resource owner) that represents value and that can be identified, described, accessed, and utilised.
This includes but is not limited to, data sets and data services.
| DSSC |
| Same Service Type | A set of Data Processing Services that share the same primary objective, Data Processing Service model and main functionalities | Commission’s Recommendation on SCC (reference to Data Act) |
| Secure processing environment | The physical or virtual environment and organisational means to ensure compliance with Union law in particular with regard to data subjects’ rights, intellectual property rights, and commercial and statistical confidentiality, integrity and accessibility, as well as with applicable national law, and to allow the entity providing the secure processing environment to determine and supervise all data processing actions, including the display, storage, download and export of data and the calculation of derivative data through computational algorithms. | Digital Omnibus Regulation (in the Data Act)8 |
| Services | Both the Data Processing Services as well as all Other Services as agreed by Parties under the Agreement | Commission’s Recommendation on SCC |
| Service Fee | The fees due and owed by the Customer to the Provider as consideration for the provision of Services as agreed by the Parties under the Agreement | Commission’s Recommendation on SCC |
| Scaling stage | The stage in the development cycle that starts when a data space initiative has been proven to consistently and organically gain new participants and embrace new use cases. In this stage, the data space can realistically be expected to be financially and operationally sustainable, respond to market changes, and grow over time. | DSSC |
| Services of data cooperatives | Data intermediation services offered by an organisational structure constituted by data subjects, one-person undertakings or SMEs who are members of that structure, having as its main objectives to support its members in the exercise of their rights with respect to certain data, including with regard to making informed choices before they consent to data processing, to exchange views on data processing purposes and conditions that would best represent the interests of its members in relation to their data, and to negotiate terms and conditions for data processing on behalf of its members before giving permission to the processing of non-personal data or before they consent to the processing of personal data. | Data Governance Act |
| Source provider | The legal entity with whom the Customer has entered into a contractual relationship regarding the provision of Data Processing Services and other Services by the Provider under the Agreement, and from which the customer now intends to change to another provider; | Data Act |
| Special categories of personal data | Personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and genetic data, biometric data, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation. | General Data Protection Regulation |
| Synergy between data spaces | The gained efficiency, increased impact or other benefits of two or more data spaces working together that are greater than if the data spaces were working separately. | DSSC |
| Switching | The process involving a source Provider of Data Processing Services, a Customer of a Data Processing Service and, where relevant, a Destination Provider of Data Processing Services, whereby the customer of a Data Processing Service changes from using one Data Processing Service to using another Data Processing Service of the same Service type, or other Service, offered by a different provider of Data Processing Services, or to an on-premises ICT infrastructure, including through extracting, transforming and uploading the Data | Commission’s Recommendation on SCC (reference to Data Act) |
| Switching charges | Charges, other than standard Service fees or early termination penalties, imposed by a provider of Data Processing Services on a customer for the actions mandated by the Data Act for switching to the system of a different provider or to on-premises ICT infrastructure, including Data egress charges | Commission’s Recommendation on SCC (reference to Data Act) |
| Third party | A legal entity, who is not a Data Space participant and/or a party signing an agreement for data transaction, who has access to data | Inferred from Art. 4(10) GDPR |
| Trust anchor | A service provider that issues assurances that participants are truthful on who they claim to be. | DSSC |
| Trust decision | A judgement made by a party to rely on some statement being true without requiring absolute proof or certainty. | DSSC |
| Trust framework | A composition of policies, rules, standards, and procedures designed for trust decisions in data spaces based on verifiable credentials. Trust framework is part of the data space governance framework. | DSSC |
| Trust service | A data space enabling service that offers assurances within a data space | DSSC |
| Use case development | A strategic approach to amplify the value of a data space by fostering the creation, support and scaling of use cases. | DSSC |
| Use case orchestrator | A data space participant that represents and is accountable for a specific use case in the context of the governance framework. The orchestrator establishes and enforces business rules and other conditions to be followed by
the use case participants.
| DSSC |
| Use case participant | A data space participant that is engaged with a specific use case. | DSSC |
| Validation | The electronic process of confirming a legally binding activity within the Data Space, such as access, data transaction, adherence of Data Space participants | Inferred from Art. 3(41) eIDAS |
| Vocabulary provider | A data space intermediary that performs the vocabulary management processes and provides vocabulary services. | DSSC |