Project Goals and Key Metrics

Goals

As part of the prototype (i.e. project), we are designing and implementing a non-profit business model that allows us to make the core data[1] openly available while at the same time financing (and, if necessary, further developing) the data infrastructure in a sustainable manner. In this way, we are addressing the collective action problem. The findings regarding use cases, pricing, revenue, and cost models, services provided, and cost structures will be relevant for the data ecosystem. The following questions are central to this[2]:

• What are the goals and principles of the data infrastructure (see also Governance)?

• What are the use cases based on the data infrastructure?

• What resources and activities are needed to maintain and, if necessary, expand the operation of the data infrastructure?

• What revenue streams (e.g., patron memberships, freemium, feature/data requests, etc.) can contribute to the financing of the operation (and, if necessary, further development) of a data infrastructure whose core data can be obtained free of charge, and to what extent?

  • What can we learn from (non-)functioning OSS communities and digital commons projects (e.g., Wikipedia and OpenStreetMap)?

• How can stakeholders be incentivized to contribute their (enriched[3]) data and other contributions (code, etc.) to the data infrastructure? (see also Governance)

  • What can we learn from (non-)functioning OSS communities and digital commons projects?

• How can third parties (technically) “contribute” data or offer interoperable data in a machine-readable format? (see Data Space Politics)

  • What can we learn from (non-)functioning OSS communities and digital commons projects?

Key Metrics

• Objectives and principles defined and documented (Q4 2025)

• Use cases defined and documented (Q4 2025)

• Budget for 2026–2027 defined (Q4 2025)

• Sources of income evaluated and documented ex ante (Q4 2025) and ex post (Q3 2026)

• Incentives for contribution implemented and documented* (Q2 2026)

• Business model implemented and documented (Q2 2026)

• → Income covers costs (Q4 2026)

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[1]

In this case: data made publicly available by parliaments on their websites or via API. Additional data (including from third parties) could be offered for a fee.

[2]

In addressing these questions, we consider the scenario of a legislative data space.

[3]

e.g., classification of business topics or IDs for parliamentarians who are members of several parliaments.