Enabling a decentralized architecture for data marketplaces

Data Marketplaces are emerging digital platforms in data management. These platforms enable the infrastructure for data exchange, offering the opportunity for data providers to commercialize their datasets and save time for data consumers in identifying appropriate datasets. Conceptually, data marketplaces provide data exchange services as their...

Is data really the new oil?: An assessment of the viability of data marketplace business models

Data has often been stated to be “the new oil”. This is said because both oil and data can be very valuable but only after they have been pre-processed. Among other things, a challenge for creating value from data lies in realizing data exchange. This is what data marketplaces aim to do. The number of shutdowns of data marketplaces during the...

Creating a Taxonomy of Business Models for Data Marketplaces

With the amount of available data growing and data posing as a strategic asset to firms, the data economy has started to evolve. Data marketplaces can fulfil a key role in realizing the data economy. The way a data marketplace operates and conducts business can be mapped and managed using a business model. As data marketplaces are a new area of...

Enabling Data Marketplaces with Multi-Party Computation (MPC): An Exploratory Study investigating the Implication of the Maturation of Multi-Party Computation (MPC) technology to the Architecture and the Threat Landscape of the Data Marketplaces

The emergence of the Data Marketplaces is the latest iteration in the phenomenon of data-driven transformation of the world. Data marketplaces have emerged as a new form of data-driven business models which enable trading of data between the data owners/providers and data consumers by providing the necessary technological and non-technological...