Based on Sitra’s work on the IHAN Blueprint, Virtual Finland now continues the development of the open architecture and standards for Dataspaces. Virtual Finland is building the infrastructure capabilities both for the service providers willing to develop interoperable applications easily as well as for data providers looking for opportunities to make their data available more cross-administratively and create value in different services.

You can familiarize the open testbed architecture here. The upcoming focus areas on the architecture and development side is currently on improving the trust chain, multimodal authentication for foreigners as well as productized data transfers from blockchain based wallets.

If you are willing to contribute to the open architecture work and join the community, please contact via [email protected]!

The key benefits that Virtual Finland infrastructure can bring to service providers is how to easily authenticate foreign people and companies as well as how to start using high quality and more accurate data in applications and how to integrate to different data source API more easily.

By looking into the Data definition viewer you can see what data definitions have been used in the pilots and are available also for you to try on the testbed. By familiarizing with the application developer guides you can learn how to make you own first integrations to the Dataspace.

If you would like to propose a new data product definition or data source that you would need in your application, please contact [email protected]!

Data integrators can benefit from the Virtual Finland infrastructure by making their data more reusable and easily available in multiple services which bring totally new value creation opportunities. Data integrators can set controls how their data is being used in different applications by different users and thus being aligned with e.g. different privacy preserving policies and commercial interests.

By looking into the Data definition viewer you can see what data product definitions have been defined already and used in the pilots which you can use to connect you own data source with and provide for the use of different applications. By familiarizing with the data integrator guides you can learn how to start connecting you own data source to the testbed.

If you would like to propose a new data product definition for your use case needs, please contact [email protected]!