Print Email Facebook Twitter The Openness of Data Platforms: A Research Agenda Title The Openness of Data Platforms: A Research Agenda Author de Reuver, Mark (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology) Ofe, H.A. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology) Agahari, W. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology) Abbas, A.E. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology) Zuiderwijk-van Eijk, A.M.G. (TU Delft Information and Communication Technology) Date 2022 Abstract Data platforms are the keystone of the data economy. When opened up, data platforms allow data owners, data consumers and third parties to interact. Yet, openness may also harm business and societal interests. Literature on platform openness does not cover data platforms, and data economy scholars rarely study platform openness. Therefore, this paper develops a research agenda on the openness of data platforms. We explore how data platforms differ from conventional digital platforms (e.g., software platforms). From those differentiating characteristics, we identify areas for future work: (1) The specific characteristics of data require reconceptualizing the object of platform openness; (2) New ways in which data platforms can be opened should be conceptualized; (3) As data platforms are tailored to specific industries, platform-to-platform openness should be a novel unit of analysis; (4) Because opening up data platforms create novel risks, new reasons to (not) open up data platforms should be studied. Subject Data platformData marketplacePlatform opennessData ecosystem To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:685c0126-a90c-411d-946d-4b3e2e2a78c2 DOI https://doi.org/10.1145/3565011.3569056 Publisher Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) ISBN 978-1-4503-9923-4 Source DE 2022 - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Data Economy, Part of CoNEXT 2022 Event International Workshop on Data Economy, 2022-12-09 → , Rome, Italy Series DE 2022 - Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Data Economy, Part of CoNEXT 2022 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2022 Mark de Reuver, H.A. Ofe, W. Agahari, A.E. Abbas, A.M.G. Zuiderwijk-van Eijk Files PDF 3565011.3569056.pdf 348.13 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:685c0126-a90c-411d-946d-4b3e2e2a78c2/datastream/OBJ/view