Introduction

We define and document use cases focusing on target groups that are in line with our objectives and principles and have not yet been addressed by commercial providers: civil society organizations (CSOs), (data) journalists, researchers, and intercantonal conferences. Governments and parliaments will be addressed in a later stage of the project (cf. Data Space). The use case documentation can be considered a “living document”, facilitating a shared understanding of the problems and use cases and elaborating as we develop the project further. Our approach was and will be inspired by Building Block Use Case Development, DSSC, Use Case Playbook, Data Sharing Coalition, Use Case Blueprint, Data Sharing Coalition and SINE Foundation’s Use Case Template (not publicly available).

A priori, there seem to be overlap between the use cases for CSOs, intercantonal conferences and journalists (continuous tool-assisted political monitoring) as well as between research and data journalism (one-time or recurring data analyses). Thus, we will further evaluate synergies and they might be (partially) consolidated at a later stage depending on exact user needs and requirements.